SLOTH in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SLOTH, such as:

1. On waking I lay long in bed yielding to sloth.
2. His thoughts were lice born of the sweat of sloth.
3. Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
4. Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.
5. The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLOTH
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sloth
 n.  laziness; apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue; any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals
Classic Sentence:
1  On waking I lay long in bed yielding to sloth.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
2  Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
3  There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
4  His thoughts were lice born of the sweat of sloth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
Example Sentence:
1  The sloth is at its busiest at sunset, using the word busy here in a most relaxed sense.
2  The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.
3  Lying idly on the sofa while others worked, Reggie denied he was slothful: "I just supervise better lying down.".