sluggard
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Synonyms: Noun
couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, lazybones, loafer, lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed
Antonyms: Noun
doer, go-ahead, go-getter, hummer, hustler, rustler, self-starter
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tried to wake up the sluggards who were still sleeping at that late hourRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
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. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sluggard.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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