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n. - An idle slothful person.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Thus the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason, Prov. xxvi.
  • 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
  • This official was called a sluggard-waker, and was usually our old friend the parish clerk with a new title.
  • A sluggard is here exposed as a fool, for, 1.
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