Example Sentences

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A good unindustrious person knows – like the slower moving gastropods before us – that there shouldn’t be a rush to expend your energy.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2018

In a word, nothing except the numbers of unindustrious poor that swarm at the gate excites any one idea of its former circumstances.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

The unindustrious father was prevailed upon to divide with the mother the burden of teaching them and undertook the task with a mild protest, employing what he humorously designated the "Socratic method."

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

You know I have been no coward, nor unindustrious in attempting that; nor will I give it over yet.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John