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lazy; disinclined to work
- they liked her, the more because she was a heretic whose vices, her smoking, her indolence, her relish of competent profanity, disturbed Mrs. Pickerbaugh and Mrs. Irving Watters.Chapter 22 (83% in)
indolence = laziness
- His voice flowed indolently, with German vowels and blurred W's: "This, gentlemen, iss a twenty-four-hour culture of Bacillus anthracis.Chapter 4 (15% in)
- Her indolent amusement, her manner of treating him as though they were a pair of children making tongues at each other in a railroad station, was infuriating to the earnest young assistant of Professor Gottlieb.Chapter 6 (15% in)
- He took up algebra; found that he had forgotten most of it; cursed over the competition of the indefatigable A and the indolent B who walk from Y to Z; hired a Columbia tutor; and finished the subject, with a spurt of something like interest in regard to quadratic equations, in six weeks .... while Leora listened, watched, waited, made sandwiches, and laughed at the tutor's jokes.Chapter 27 (52% in)
- Once he thought he was talking to Leora, but it proved to be a voice, sexless and intolerant, which said "Number pleeeeeze" with a taut alertness impossible to anyone so indolent as Leora.Chapter 28 (17% in)
- Aware only of Madeline Fox and Orchid Pickerbaugh, who were Nice American Girls, of soon-forgotten ladies of the night, and of Leora, who, in her indolence, her indifference to decoration and good fame, was neither woman nor wife but only her own self, Martin knew nothing whatever about Women.Chapter 37 (81% in)
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