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sloth

/slɔθ/

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What does sloth mean?

noun

  1. Laziness; slowness of mind; disinclination to action or labour; a feeling combining indifference and lethargy; a dragging idleness.
  2. Any member of species of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae of herbivorous, arboreal South American mammals, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
  3. Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. (rare) A group of bears.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To be idle; to idle (away time).

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IPA pronunciation

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But after this extraordinary outburst he seems to have relapsed into sloth and the dissipation of his powers.
John MunroHeroes of the TelegraphProject Gutenberg ebook #979
I wean myself with utility from this proneness to sloth, and am evidently the better for so doing.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
More book examples (3)
The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and slow gestures.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe island of Doctor MoreauProject Gutenberg ebook #159
Its manner of clinging with its claws, and the sluggishness of its motions, gave it a great resemblance to a sloth.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440
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!
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408