Indolent
Free from toil, pain, or trouble.
Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man.
Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.
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Indolent Quotations
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
Anna Julia Cooper
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Oliver Goldsmith
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.
James Payn
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Samuel George Morton
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
John Philpot Curran
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Indolent Translations
indolent in Norwegian is treg, lat
indolent in Spanish is indolente
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