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Examples of indolence in a Sentence
a general feeling of indolence usually overtakes them during summer vacation
Recent Examples on the Web
If slouching among privileged white Americans could indicate an enviable carelessness, it was seen as proof of indolence when adopted by the disadvantaged.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
But what if a horror movie's antagonist was an animal whose name is literally synonymous with laziness, indolence, and inactivity?
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2023
Getting a lot of sleep is virtuous (wellness, leisure) and also objectionable (self-indulgence, indolence).
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2023
The real killer is our indolence.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2013
On the right, cash payments are seen to promote indolence and inflation.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
For some, the notion of an isolated, utterly private Caribbean atoll may conjure up fantasies of tropical indolence — chaise longues on a white-sand beach, umbrella drinks and perhaps a paperback.
—Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
Choni vividly realized the mix of perfumed indolence and frenzy in Scriabin’s Fourth Sonata.
—Dallas News, 13 June 2022
The book’s most prominent theme is that the societal pathologies Mr. Vance witnessed in Middletown—alcoholism, indolence, opioid addiction—are not, or at least not primarily, the result of declining economic opportunity.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1710, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Indolence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indolence. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
indolence
noun
in·do·lence
ˈin-də-lən(t)s
: the quality or state of being indolent : laziness
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