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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A lot of good at-bats, some slug in there, some timely hitting.
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Remove them by hand picking them off the fronds, or use iron phosphate slug bait around the base of the fern.
Adjective
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That they would be regarded as slothful morons who aren't worth the price of a ticket of admission.
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Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Noun
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If CosRx can convince people to willingly slather snail mucin on their faces, trusting the brand with hair care is a pretty easy next step.
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Some of our go-to eye serums are marked down for Prime Day, too, including the COSRX Snail Mucin Peptide Under Eye Cream, which features snail mucin, peptides, and niacinamide to even out discoloration and soothe puffy areas.
Adjective
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But Richmond’s James River stretch also offers calm stretches of flat water near the city center that are ideal for a lazy river tube run.
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Then the release, the arrival, the return to self, and a lazy, funny sort of shyness.
Noun
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The suspects accused of plotting an attack on the UFC fight at the White House allegedly planned to deploy drones armed with explosives around the event, forcing the crowd to evacuate before they would be targeted by sniper fire, court records said.
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The threat of drone attacks forced several Saudi, Emirati and Iraqi facilities to shut in during the war, too.
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.
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His discoveries promise to upset the gaming tables of every school of thought that wagers on new and untested art for idlers’ rewards: the love of novelty, the will to make or unmake reputations, the wish to be hip or au courant.
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Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
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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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).
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“Sluggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluggard. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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