Sample Sentences forindolent (editor-reviewed)
indolent as in: she is naturally indolent
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She never recovered from the indolence of her youth.indolence = laziness
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She is too indolent for med school.indolent = lazy
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When she smokes, Masooma's face slackens. Her lids droop. Her head tilts unsteadily to the side and her voice takes on a sluggish, distant quality. A whisper of a smile forms on the corners of her mouth, whimsical, indolent, complacent rather than content. (source)
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Plotting has changed Denver markedly. Where she was once indolent, resentful of every task, now she is spry, executing, even extending the assignments Sethe leaves for them. (source)indolent = lazy (disinclined to work)
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Hall was careful to keep us to a more indolent pace that gave our bodies time to adapt to the increasingly thin air. (source)indolent = slower (lazy)
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indolent waves (source)indolent = lazy (not forceful)
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Where he had once been lounging and indolent, he was now as alert as a prowling cat, (source)indolent = lazy
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What we observe as playfulness and patience — the requirements to become Nurturer — could, with maturity, be revealed as simply foolishness and indolence. (source)indolence = laziness
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Young men were toiling industriously in the paddies or fanning themselves indolently in the shade, (source)indolently = lazily
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"Why," she said, "you just can't apply American methods in this country. It's natural to the folks here to be indolent," she said. (source)indolent = disinclined to work
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the boatman leaning with eternal indolence against his tiller while the sunset blazed around him (source)indolence = laziness
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She raises her arms and stretches, as she moves indolently back to the chair. (source)indolently = lazily
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he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; (source)indolent = lazy
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It was once said that 'idleness is the ideal of genius, and indolence the virtue of the Romantic.' (source)indolence = laziness
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Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier. (source)indolently = lazily
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their busy, lively ways made him ashamed of the indolent life he led. (source)indolent = lazy
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