a disinclination to work or exert yourself
sloth
How to use sloth in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for sloth.
Editorial note
Wife irritated by my sloth about the house?
Quick take
a disinclination to work or exert yourself
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sloth gathered in one view.
any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sloth.
noun
a disinclination to work or exert yourself
See also: slothfulness
noun
any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
noun
apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Example sentences
Wife irritated by my sloth about the house?
It is all about greed, envy, lust, sloth, wraith/anger, gluttony, and worse of all pride.
It's creatures like the panda or the koala or the sloth that shake my faith in evolution.
The sloth's evolutionary advantage is that they are so fucking cool.
I'm sure for every person on this list there's ten people who started with a silver spoon in their mouth, and through sloth and weakness blew everything.
Good quality illustrations; they are relatively durable and the text gives parents the answers to thingsl like 'Where does a 3 toed sloth live?
This news is actually a brilliant illustration of the sloth of academic publishing.
Finding the play/work balance is hard, because on the one side is extreme sloth, and on the other is a path that, I believe, ends up making you a kind of solipsist/nihilist burnout.
Are we so ardently lazy, so passionate about sloth that we should feel entitled to warnings that we might inadvertently devote ourselves to something?
Many painful minutes spent with slow-like-sloth-taking-a-shit Java desktop software lead me to believe that your statement isn't entirely true.
It doesn't take long to discover that university education is an inefficient sloth, a waste of time and basically a broken system for almost all majors.
If you think the guys running IT for those places somehow didn't notice that there are other options or just can't be bothered to upgrade or suffer from "intellectual sloth" then you really have no idea how things work at that level at all.
The problem is that Western culture, particularly the Anglophone subset, is generally against sleep, equating the pursuit of adequate sleep--which vaies by individual--with sloth or laziness.
To a busy person taking 30minutes to sit in the kitchen, read the paper, and sip some coffee would appear as sloth and idleness but doing the same in a train car is nearly as pleasant and gives no opportunity for the evil optimizer in our heads to give us grief about it.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sloth in a sentence?
Wife irritated by my sloth about the house?
What does sloth mean?
a disinclination to work or exert yourself
What part of speech is sloth?
sloth is commonly used as noun.