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indolent

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indolent
1. Pathol causing little pain
2. (esp of a painless ulcer) slow to heal
indolent [′in·də·lənt]
(medicine)
Of or relating to a slow-growing, nonpainful neoplasm.
Slowness in the process of healing.
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So too the poet, in representing men who are irascible or indolent, or have other defects of character, should preserve the type and yet ennoble it.
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I had a loose box, and might have been very comfortable if he had not been too indolent to clean it out.
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Accustomed to ease, and unequal to the struggles incident to an infant society, the affluent emigrant was barely enabled to maintain his own rank by the weight of his personal superiority and acquirements; but, the moment that his head was laid in the grave, his indolent and comparatively uneducated offspring were compelled to yield precedency to the more active energies of a class whose exertions had been stimulated by necessity.
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