Example Sentences

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Basically, I have to use my tendency toward slothfulness against my tendency for gluttony, and it really works!

From The Verge • Jan. 12, 2022

The sports that don’t involve extreme velocity, like curling or biathlon, make up for their slothfulness by adding brooms and rifles.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2018

Passing his days with insuperable slothfulness, he lives in Mexico City in a damp apartment overlooking a vacant lot and works a dead-end job at a museum.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2016

Tenure, charges John R. Silber, president of Boston University, has become "a device used by the devil to encourage faculty slothfulness."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sleepiness and slothfulness keep it out of harm’s way, away from the notice of jaguars, ocelots, harpy eagles and anacondas.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel