All 3 Uses of
indolent
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Catch-22
- Through the lavender gloom clouding the entrance of the operations tent, Yossarian glimpsed Chief White Halfoat, diligently embezzling whiskey rations, forging the signatures of nondrinkers and pouring off the alcohol with which he was poisoning himself into separate bottles rapidly in order to steal as much as he could before Captain Black roused himself with recollection and came hurrying over indolently to steal the rest himself.†
Chpt 14
- Four more girls passed through the room in an indolent group, engrossed in conversation; three were barefoot and one wobbled perilously on a pair of unbuckled silver dancing shoes that did not seem to be her own.†
Chpt 23
- Now she sat resting in vacuous indolence,
Chpt 26 *indolence = laziness
Definition:
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(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work