Slothful Sentence Examples

But he was too slothful to have more than a passive part in the direction of his own government.

Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get.

And, thou wicked and slothful servant, who sayest, ' He is an austere master, ' shalt be confounded for ever.

On the day of the funeral Peter addressed to Alexius a stern letter of warning and remonstrance, urging him no longer to resemble the slothful servant in the parable, and threatening to cut him off, as though he were a gangrenous swelling, if he did not acquiesce in his father's plans.

The coastmen were expert smugglers and wreckers, the agriculturists were ignorant and drunken, the parish clergy were slothful, in many cases intemperate, and largely given to fox-hunting.

In this way the slowness of the sloth serves these most " slothful " of sloth moths!

In this way the slowness of the sloth serves these most " slothful " of sloth moths !

Likewise, the slothful man may change himself into an active, energetic individual simply by polarizing along the lines of the desired quality.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued.