Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not diligent; idle; slothful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not diligent; idle; slothful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not
diligent ;idle ,slothful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were not indiligent in this matter, but “instantly served God day and night.”
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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The young people applauded loudly, and their elders smiled with indiligent pleasure.
The First Soprano Mary Hitchcock
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'Tis the indiligent reader_ that loses my subject -- _not I.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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'Tis the indiligent reader who loses my subject, and not I; there will always be found some word or other in a corner that is to the purpose, though it lie very close.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 17 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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'Tis the indiligent reader who loses my subject, and not I; there will always be found some word or other in a corner that is to the purpose, though it lie very close.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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[ ''Tis the indiligent reader that loses my subject, not I,' says the 'foreign interpreter' of this style of writing.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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