Laziness

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404. Laziness (See also Carelessness.)

  1. Bailey Junior nonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit ]
  2. Bailey, Beetle goldbricking army private. [Comics: Horn, 105106]
  3. Belacqua too slothful in life, he repents after death. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy ]
  4. Bshyst demon of sloth. [Zoroastrian Myth.: Leach, 175]
  5. Capp, Andy deliberately jobless and shirks household duties. [Comics: Horn, 82]
  6. Datchery, Dick hotel resident with no occupation. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood ]
  7. Jughead terminally indolent, save when hunger dictates. [Comics: Archie in Horn, 87]
  8. Krebs, Maynard G. for whom work is a four-letter word. [TV: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in Terrace, II, 6466]
  9. Lake of Idleness whoever drank thereof, grew immediately faint and weary. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene ]
  10. Lazybones popular song by Hoagy Carmichael (1933). [Am. Music: Kinkle, II, 268]
  11. Lester, Jeeter hapless sharecropper too lazy to keep his large family from starving. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road ]
  12. Little Boy Blue asleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11]
  13. Oblomov indolent landowner, always in robe and slippers. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov ]
  14. phlegm humor effecting temperament of sluggishness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130]
  15. sloth arboreal mammal, always associated with sluggishness. [Zoology: Misc.]
  16. Speed an illiterate loiterer; slow-moving servant. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona ]

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