sloth
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noun
1.
habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
2.
any of several slow-moving, arboreal, tropical American edentates of the family Bradypodidae, having a long, coarse, grayish-brown coat often of a greenish cast caused by algae, and long, hooklike claws used in gripping tree branches while hanging or moving along in a habitual upside-down position.
3.
a pack or group of bears.
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| 1. | any of several shaggy-coated arboreal edentate mammals of the family Bradypodidae, esp Bradypus tridactylus (three-toed sloth or ai) or Choloepus didactylus (two-toed sloth or unau), of Central and South America. They are slow-moving, hanging upside down by their long arms and feeding on vegetation |
| 2. | reluctance to work or exert oneself |
| [Old English slǣwth; from slǣw, variant of slāw | |
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Word Origin & History
sloth
c.1175, "indolence, sluggishness," formed from M.E. slou, slowe (see slow); replacing O.E. slæwð. Sense of "slowness, tardiness" is from c.1380. As one of the deadly sins, it translates L. accidia. The slow-moving mammal first so called 1613, a translation of Port.
preguiça, from L. pigritia "laziness" (cf. Sp. perezosa "slothful," also "the sloth").
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Example sentences
Yet the filmmakers hold out the possibility of new life stirring under the domestic halter and the intellectual sloth.
The only real sin at play here is sloth--that is, the sloth of the pastry chefs who come up with these one-note menus.
What makes the film so disappointing is not its errors of fact but the sullen sloth with which its episodes unfold.
Both are afflicted with a species of blindness, and intellectual sloth.
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