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indolent
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indolent as in:  she is naturally indolent

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  • Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir  (source)
    indolently = lazily (slowly without energy)
  • 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
  • Its only real habit is indolence.  (source)
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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)
    indolent = lazy
  • the boatman leaning with eternal indolence against his tiller while the sunset blazed around him  (source)
    indolence = laziness
  • Young men were toiling industriously in the paddies or fanning themselves indolently in the shade,  (source)
    indolently = lazily
  • 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)
  • It was once said that 'idleness is the ideal of genius, and indolence the virtue of the Romantic.'  (source)
    indolence = laziness
  • She raises her arms and stretches, as she moves indolently back to the chair.  (source)
    indolently = lazily
  • If Richard personified the family's dark, fanatical side, Gottfried embodied the indolent one.  (source)
    indolent = lazy
  • His indolence was so serious that when they announced the arrival of a commission from his party that was authorized to discuss the stalemate of the war, he rolled over in his hammock without completely waking up.  (source)
    indolence = laziness
  • Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier.  (source)
    indolently = lazily
  • indolent waves  (source)
    indolent = lazy (not forceful)
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