sloth

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The use of the English word "sloth" gets the focus away from sadness.

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  1. noun Aversion to work or exertion; laziness; indolence.
  2. noun Any of various slow-moving, arboreal, edentate mammals of the family Bradypodidae of South and Central America, having long hooklike claws by which they hang upside down from tree branches and feeding on leaves, buds, and fruits, especially:
  3. noun A member of the genus Bradypus, having three long-clawed toes on each forefoot. Also called ai1, three-toed sloth.
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  • The use of the English word "sloth" gets the focus away from sadness. —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • Four animals that immediately comes to mind is the sloth, the weasel, the pig, and the rat.
  • Intellectual sloth is a human character flaw with numerous ramifications, and which constitutes the gravest threat to our democracies. —  THE PEACE TREE
  • He blames a combination of "sloth," "inertia" and trouble landing a record deal for the long delay.
  • O dreams of yesterday will not comfort our present sloth, our minds need piercing to recall this beginning! —  THE PEACE TREE
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  1. Middle English slowth, from slow, slow; see slow.

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  1. Early modern English also sloath, slowth; from Middle English slouhthe, slouthe, sleuth, sleuthe, slewthe; with abstract formative -th, from Anglo-Saxon slāw, slow (cf. slǣw, sloth): see slow, adjective Sloth stands for slowth, as troth for trowth. Cf. blowth, growth, lowth.
  2. from Middle English slewthen, from slewthe, sloth: see sloth, n.
 

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