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sloth
/slɔθ/
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What does sloth mean?
noun
- Laziness; slowness of mind; disinclination to action or labour; a feeling combining indifference and lethargy; a dragging idleness.
- Any member of species of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae of herbivorous, arboreal South American mammals, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (rare) A group of bears.
verb
- (obsolete) To be idle; to idle (away time).
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
But after this extraordinary outburst he seems to have relapsed into sloth and the dissipation of his powers.
I wean myself with utility from this proneness to sloth, and am evidently the better for so doing.
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The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and slow gestures.
Its manner of clinging with its claws, and the sluggishness of its motions, gave it a great resemblance to a sloth.
How strange that Georgia, the world-heralded refuge of poor debtors, should bind her own to sloth and misfortune as ruthlessly as ever England did!