sluggard
a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
lazy; sluggardly.
Origin of sluggard
1Words Nearby sluggard
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How to use sluggard in a sentence
These Maruts stir up even the sluggard, even the vagrant, as the gods pleased.
Sacred Books of the East | VariousThey say that life among artists is rather swift, and I don't think your husband can be called a sluggard.
Creditors; Pariah | August StrindbergIf you would know a sluggard in the things of heaven, compare him with one that is slothful in the things of this world.
The Heavenly Footman | John BunyanBesides, she had never been so busy before in all her life, and Ruth Fielding was no sluggard.
Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross | Alice B. EmersonThe soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Joshua | William Garden Blaikie
British Dictionary definitions for sluggard
/ (ˈslʌɡəd) /
a person who is habitually indolent
lazy
Origin of sluggard
1Derived forms of sluggard
- sluggardly, adjective
- sluggardliness, noun
- sluggardness, noun
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