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sluggard

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1. sluggard - Noun

2. sluggard - Adjective

Meaning

A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.

Sluggish; lazy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. William Makepeace Thackeray

Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard. Hesiod

4749. The Sluggard makes his Night till Noon. Thomas Fuller (writer)

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Russian Proverb

The Sluggard works twice, the niggard pays twice. Bulgarian Proverb

At evening the sluggard is busy. German Proverb

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