The king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. From LearnThat.org. [Ambrose Bierce ( 1842-1914) American Writer, Journalist and Editor,]
Separate ERSPC findings already confirm that approximately 30\% of detected cancers actually have non-aggressive features and are 'indolent' or slow growing. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
An indolent ulcer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His eyes were sleepy, his expression indolent or good-natured. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth's Campaign] Reference
But indeed there are Crowds of People who put themselves in no Method of pleasing themselves or others; such are those whom we usually call indolent Persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays] Reference
Let's say a woman has a slow-growing, "indolent" tumor. From Wordnik.com. [The Verdict's Still Out] Reference
The idea that just because someone is advanced in years should be "indolent" or "indulgent" is grossly condescending and insulting. From Wordnik.com. [I hope when I finally grow up that I will become a Real Old Person | Tim Lott] Reference
They are the indolent ones walking a path toward ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Loving Our Neighbors] Reference
"He scored over you there, Arbery," said indolent Waterman. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
He heard all about it from Waterman -- the easy-going, indolent. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
So in both indolent and aggressive cancers, mammograms make little difference. From Wordnik.com. [The Verdict's Still Out] Reference
And so, being by nature indolent, she decided to make the most of the unwelcome. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He was one of those indolent boys, with plenty of talent, if they only care to exercise it. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Philip said that Percy was indolent and vain, and too fond of female society of any sort or grade. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
English settlers had more to fear, than from the religious zeal and bigotry of indolent Spanish friars. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The "Big Easy" is a city of indolent charm, and its residents can be fatalist about enjoying the moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
But it is because I know where my time is going that I'm able to have lethargic, joyfully indolent hours. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Vanderkam: The Art of Productivity] Reference
There, for the next five weeks, he led an indolent life, mainly in the then backwater town of Puerto Vallarta. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About Memphis] Reference
Down below the stream rolls lazily along while the cattle, standing at ease, seem to catch its indolent spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference
There is no good test to differentiate between, you know, aggressive prostate cancer and indolent prostate cancer. From Wordnik.com. [When To Test For Prostate Cancer?] Reference
Life around them moved on in the leisurely, almost indolent manner in which it does move on board a passenger ship. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Too indolent to work out the natural riches of their soil, they are too jealous to permit others to do it for them. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
It is true, a number of idle and indolent people, like voracious drones in the hive, are a burden to every community. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Comte's catalogue or syllabus, 502 indolent readers, 503 perplexity of the student, 504 difficulties in classification, 505. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The warmth of the spring day gave him an indolent mood on the way home, and he indulged it at the park. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
I have often heard the term "lazy Creole" applied to my country people; but I am sure I do not know what it is to be indolent. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Stripping away such entitlements, Conservatives believe, will promote self-reliance, nudge the indolent into jobs and save money. From Wordnik.com. [Tinkering with tenancy is no solution to the housing shortage] Reference
Laziness is a deadly enemy to success; and the child who is indolent in the home, is likely to bring up the rear in the race of life. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
He saw in Jefferson's vision not the romance of bucolic life but an indolent, oligarchic, caste society suffocating America's promise. From Wordnik.com. [Fly Me, Air Uncle Sam] Reference
The hurrying reader, on the one hand, and the indolent reader, on the other, are the types to be avoided with the most scrupulous care. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The headlong pursuit of "Nature" is what happens when prosperous societies grow indolent and parochial, and begin to indulge themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Unabomer And The Left] Reference
He returns to find the kingdom in leafless ruin, with the indolent hyenas complaining that the lionesses aren't bringing home enough food. From Wordnik.com. [King Of The Urban Jungle] Reference
Now, because we don't know which cancers are aggressive and which are indolent, we're overtreating some patients and undertreating others. From Wordnik.com. ['It's Almost Too Good for Us to Believe'] Reference
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