sluggard

slug·gard | \ ˈslə-gərd

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Definition of sluggard

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: a habitually lazy person

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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, "Does “The Lion King” Need C.G.I.?," 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, "Can My Cat Go Out if He Bullies Other Cats?," 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, "Shaking off late-summer hebetude," 7 Sep. 2017 French workers, whom the British like to dismiss as holiday-hogging sluggards, are more productive than the British. — The Economist, "Theresa May v Britain’s managers," 31 Aug. 2017

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“Sluggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sluggard. Accessed 7 Aug. 2020.

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