slothful

• No, sir; my word for it, unless you do something more than is proposed in this proposition, old Virginia will go out too--slothful as she has been, and tardy as she seems in appreciating her own interests and her rights, and kind and generous as she has been in inviting a Peace Congress to agree upon measures of safety for the Union. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• 5 DEGENERATION I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and lo, it was all grown over with thorns and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• He said Solomon's description of the slothful should be written in letters of gold on the walls of the understanding. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
• So slothful, however, is man in all that concerns his higher faculties, that few deliberately undertake this education at all. —  Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People
• In thy house be not slothful, but see to all thyself; put not thy trust in a steward, neither in a servant, that thy guests jeer not at thy house, nor at thy dinner.... Love your wives, but give them no power over you. —  A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections

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