List of synonyms from "slow down" to synonyms from "slummy"


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Definition of the day : « sluggard »

  • noun lazy person
Example sentences :
  • "The day is young, but I'm no sluggard, you know," said the lawyer.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
  • Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell
  • The fans who watch the game of life despise the sluggard in the strife.
  • Extract from : « Rippling Rhymes » by Walt Mason
  • To escape this fault, a man must be either a saint or a sluggard.
  • Extract from : « Impressions of South Africa » by James Bryce
  • I will not, like a sluggard, wear out my youth in idleness at home.
  • Extract from : « Tales from Shakespeare » by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
  • I knew him for a sluggard in the morning; but, as it drew on toward noon, I lost my patience.
  • Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various
  • We are told to go to the ant—at least the sluggard is—but for what?
  • Extract from : « Science and Morals and Other Essays » by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
  • No sluggard, be it known, can hope to catch grasshoppers with any degree of success.
  • Extract from : « 'Me-Smith' » by Caroline Lockhart
  • While he had stood there a dolt and sluggard, she had satisfied her curiosity and stolen away.
  • Extract from : « A Drift from Redwood Camp » by Bret Harte
  • As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.
  • Extract from : « Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature » by Various