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Adjective
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Having a big back refers to someone who's physically big, or who draws gentle teasing for hogging food or being lazy.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025 -
The best way to relax on a long flight or during a lazy Sunday, in my opinion, is in loungewear.—
Rylee Johnston,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Why didn’t Tania just get one of her fellow Council wokesters to hire her shiftless, entitled kin?—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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The film, like How to Train Your Dragon, is about a shiftless youngster (Lilo, a Hawaiian girl who has been acting out since the death of her parents) bonding with a fantasy creature (Stitch, a blue alien experiment designed as a weapon of destruction).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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Charlie Kirk has rubbed many people the wrong way, so there were understandably some apathetic reactions to his death this week.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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How can a Big Ten fan base be so apathetic?—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Sixty-five-year-old Jep Gambardella, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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Her tumor appears ominous but is, by nature, indolent—slow-growing, noninvasive, never destined to threaten her life.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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His at-bats over the past two weeks often looked listless.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Hiring was listless across most sectors, especially white-collar industries where activity was flat in August, according to Tuesday’s report.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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At our test track, the buzzy little SUV needed a slothful 9.2 seconds to hit 60 mph.—
Drew Dorian,
Car and Driver,
23 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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The prevailing trend, and antidote to turbulent, ever-changing times, was rather zen, languorous and quieting.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
17 Sep. 2025
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And throughout a 100-minute show, Cain recounted the story of a preacher’s daughter through wailing vocals, haunting drones, and meditative, languorous chants.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Unfortunately, the infectious energy of the scare zone gets completely lost in the lethargic and drowsy maze.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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At first, Walters feared the chicken might not survive—describing her as lethargic and depressed.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Ambitionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambitionless. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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