All 3 Uses of
indolent
in
Madame Bovary
- Signs by moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over yielded hands, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness could not be separated from the balconies of great castles full of indolence, from boudoirs with silken curtains and thick carpets, well-filled flower-stands, a bed on a raised dias, nor from the flashing of precious stones and the shoulder-knots of liveries.†
Chpt 1.9
- The meeting was over, the crowd dispersed, and now that the speeches had been read, each one fell back into his place again, and everything into the old grooves; the masters bullied the servants, and these struck the animals, indolent victors, going back to the stalls, a green-crown on their horns.†
Chpt 2.8
- Then he, from indolence, from laziness, went and took, hanging on its nail in my laboratory, the key of the Capharnaum.
Chpt 3.2 *indolence = laziness
Definition:
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(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work