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Laziness
See also Carelessness. Lechery (See LUST.) Bailey Junior nonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] goldbricking army private. [Comics: Horn, 105–106] too slothful in life, he repents after death. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy] demon of sloth. [Zoroastrian Myth.: Leach, 175] deliberately jobless and shirks household duties. [Comics: Horn, 82] hotel resident with no occupation. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood] terminally indolent, save when hunger dictates. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87] for whom “work” is a four-letter word. [TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” in Terrace, II, 64–66]
whoever drank thereof, grew immediately “faint and weary.” [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] popular song by Hoagy Carmichael (1933). [Am. Music: Kinkle, II, 268] hapless sharecropper too lazy to keep his large family from starving. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road] asleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11] indolent landowner, always in robe and slippers. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov] humor effecting temperament of sluggishness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130] arboreal mammal, always associated with sluggishness. [Zoology: Misc.] an “illiterate loiterer”; slow-moving servant. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona]
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No references found | Certainly the change is one from "swiftness" (swift and swiftness are both used in the description of the god) to lazyness (lazy is used). My oldest was 7 and we told her no more pull-ups and it only took her a week to start getting up to go to the bathroom and quit peeing on herself out of pure lazyness and not wanting to get out of bed. And already during the cumbersome ascent, Petrarch explains the allegory behind his own lazyness and self-deception as he reflects on having, three times in a row, selected an apparently gentler route, only to find himself cut-off from the remainder of his party: Sic sepe delusus quadam in valle consedi. |
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