sluggard

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noun

slug·gard ˈslə-gərd

Synonyms of sluggard next

: a habitually lazy person

sluggard

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Examples of sluggard in a Sentence

Noun tried to wake up the sluggards who were still sleeping at that late hour

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard. —

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019 Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that. —

Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017 Slug was – is – a variant on sluggard, which was actually used as a surname for some time, apparently. —

Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017 French workers, whom the British like to dismiss as holiday-hogging sluggards, are more productive than the British. —

The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017

Adjective

The stock really has not done much of anything in the last five years, the stock following a similar sluggard pattern of the company’s revenue line. —

Moneyshow, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021

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