March 18, 2008
Tuesday, 18th March 2008 : Today's Word is ...
Sloth
Pronunciation : slawth & sl�th
1. a dislike of work or any kind of physical exertion
2. BIOLOGY : a slow-moving mammal that uses its long claws to hang upside down from tree branches. Native to: Central, South America. Genera Bradypus, Choloepus.
3. BIOLOGY : a pack or group of bears
4. habitual disinclination to exertion
5. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
[12th century - slow + -th, suffix forming nouns - Indo-European
do-nothingness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, lackadaisicalness, languidness, laxness, lethargy, listlessness, slackness, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, supineness, laziness
energy, industriousness
� The three-toed sloth is so slow and lazy that it has green fur because of an algae that grows on it.
� Abashed by this question, I replied that sloth was my chief temptation.
� The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and slow gestures.
� Meanwhile, I had moved to sociable chambers within sound of the city clocks, and had lived the life of a lonely man about town, sinking more and more into the comfortable sloth of bachelorhood.
� To be lazy and sluggish is to be slothful.
� Ophelia's slothful husband virtually lived on the couch in the living room and the television remote control devise was in danger of becoming grafted to his hand.
� Ivan's weekends were devoted to sloth. He never arose before noon and he seldom left the house before Monday morning.
� You may have seen a picture of an animal called a sloth. It hangs upside down from tree limbs and is never in a hurry to do anything.
� To fall into sloth is to act like a sloth.
� slothfully : Adjective
� slothfulness : Noun
� Slothful : Adjective