Both Uses of
sloth
in
Arrowsmith
- Almus Pickerbaugh was neither a coward nor slothful.
Chpt 23 *slothful = lazy
- I assume you agree with me, or you will when you have had an opportunity to see the effect our work has on the city, and the success we have in selling the idea of Better Health, that what the world needs is a really inspired, courageous, overtowering leader— say a Billy Sunday of the movement—a man who would know how to use sensationalism properly and wake the people out of their sloth.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(sloth as in: mental sloth) laziness (an unwillingness to work or exert oneself)
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(2)
(sloth as in: a sloth in the tree) a type of mammal that seldom moves and is very slow when it does move
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus