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Sloth

//sləʊθ//

Definitions

nounsloths

1
Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
Who having ſpilt much blood, and don much waſte / Subduing Nations, and achievd thereby / Fame in the World, high titles, and rich prey, / Shall change thir courſe to pleaſure, eaſe, and ſloth, / Surfet, and luſt, till wantonneſs and pride / Raiſe out of friendſhip hoſtil deeds in Peace.
2
Any animal in the suborder Folivora.
3
A group of bears.

verbsloths · slothing · slothed

1
To be idle; to idle (away time).
[…] the most of professors are for imbezzeling, mispending and slothing away their time, their talents, their opportunities to do good in […]

Word Origin

From Middle English slouthe, slewthe (“laziness”), from Old English slǣwþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiwiþu, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slownes...

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