as in slug
a lazy person
tried to wake up the sluggards who were still sleeping at that late hour
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Recent Examples of 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.
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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.
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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.
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The Economist,
31 Aug. 2017
Moneyshow,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2021
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.
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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.
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Moneyshow,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sluggard
Noun
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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Dunlap explains that these pungent compounds deter strawberry-loving garden pests like slugs and aphids while also acting as mild fungicides.
Adjective
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And just like Alito, some members of my family have forgotten our history and support Trump or favor some of his immigration policies, dismissing new arrivals as criminals or lazy.
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Today, the park operates more than 40 family-friendly water attractions including thrilling slides, casual pools and a lazy river.
Noun
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Calendula Calendula’s fleshy leaves, stems, and flowers also draw slugs and snails away from other crops and can be interplanted in food or flower gardens for natural slug control.
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The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
Adjective
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Treatment for indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) largely focuses on preventing and controlling specific symptoms and anaphylaxis.
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No, rest is for the lazy, the Caucasian adolescent, the indolent, the indulgent—until the age of thirty.
Noun
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Pyrotecnico, a national fireworks and drones display business, is in charge of the spectacle.
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As a result, Skywalkers hovers between a sense of constant performance and disarming immediacy — the latter generally during the many vertigo-inducing drone shots of Ivan and Angela’s hair-raising accomplishments.
Adjective
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Why didn’t Tania just get one of her fellow Council wokesters to hire her shiftless, entitled kin?
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After the volunteers slink back to Paddy’s, the most shiftless person on campus will once again be Principal Coleman (Janelle James), whose ineptitude and vanity don’t prevent her from advocating for the students from time to time.
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Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
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This represents the loss of an idea of what the capital should represent, the removal of a place that was an idler’s haven.
Adjective
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The length exacerbates all the rest of the series' sins, including a lack of emotional depth, gratuitous suffering and violence, long stretches of boring, listless plotting and extraneous characters.
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Instead of the fantastical, even beautiful diaper sculptures, we were served the waste products of listless consumption.
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“Sluggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluggard. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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