Sentence example with the word 'indolence'

indolence

a wise passiveness, deadliness, drawl, inactivity, languidness, listlessness, nonresistance, passivity, sloth, stasis, watching and waiting

Definition n. inactivity resulting from a dislike of work

Last update: July 14, 2015


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He failed in his exam's due to his indolence.   [Please select]

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I was too young to do more than see and note facts, and thanks to my natural indolence and that passion for the concrete, which is at once the joy and the weakness of artists, I should perhaps always have remained at that stage if my somewhat pedantic critics had not driven me to reflect and painfully search after the ultimate causes of which till then I had only grasped the effects.   [Please select]

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Selfishness and indolence usually disrupted the best of them.   [Please select]

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The widespread mental indolence, so prevalent in society, proves this to be only too true.   [Please select]

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Thus indolence and vanity form of themselves strong recommendations of these principles.   [Please select]

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A profound lethargy, the very spirit of indolence, seemed to have sunk upon the village.   [Please select]

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It was not for them to enjoy a summer in ease and indolence.   [Please select]

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Texts: Works, Aldine edition; The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence, in Clarendon Press, etc.   [Please select]

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Beneath the rule of this dirty mysticism, indolence and scoundrelism mismanaged the war.   [Please select]

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In the last year of his life, he published his "Castle of Indolence," the most famous of his works excepting "The Seasons."   [Please select]

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The flies bask in half torpid indolence, the tormenting whine of the mosquito is heard no more.   [Please select]

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