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Laziness

See also Carelessness.

Lechery (See LUST.)

Bailey Junior

nonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit]

Bailey, Beetle

goldbricking army private. [Comics: Horn, 105–106]

Belacqua

too slothful in life, he repents after death. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy]

Bshyst

demon of sloth. [Zoroastrian Myth.: Leach, 175]

Capp, Andy

deliberately jobless and shirks household duties. [Comics: Horn, 82]

Datchery, Dick

hotel resident with no occupation. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood]

Jughead

terminally indolent, save when hunger dictates. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87]

Krebs, Maynard G.

for whom “work” is a four-letter word. [TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” in Terrace, II, 64–66]

Lake of Idleness

whoever drank thereof, grew immediately “faint and weary.” [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]

Lazybones

popular song by Hoagy Carmichael (1933). [Am. Music: Kinkle, II, 268]

Lester, Jeeter

hapless sharecropper too lazy to keep his large family from starving. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road]

Little Boy Blue

asleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11]

Oblomov

indolent landowner, always in robe and slippers. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov]

phlegm

humor effecting temperament of sluggishness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130]

sloth

arboreal mammal, always associated with sluggishness. [Zoology: Misc.]

Speed

an “illiterate loiterer”; slow-moving servant. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona]

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