Example Sentences

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We’re told to push them out to fend for themselves financially or risk raising irresponsible adults — slothfully living in their childhood bedroom or the basement — incapable of managing their money.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2022

The only sneaky good moments in the episode have almost nothing to do with the rap dramedy slothfully unfolding at its center.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2017

Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2015

Future Tense’s Jacob Brogan argues that sci-fi is built on those who slothfully defy the chains that bind them.

From Slate • May 29, 2015

Opportunities of service, slothfully or faintheartedly neglected, are often withdrawn.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander