All 4 Uses
indolent
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- Look how through them a boat passes, filled with indolent, with unconscious, with powerful young men.†
*indolent = lazy
- He floated among us like a piece of thistledown, indolently haunting the sunny corner of the playing-field, not listening, yet not remote.†
indolently = lazily
- So he turned with a passion that made up for his indolence upon Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, lying lazily dormant, yes, but regardant, noticing, with rapture, cricketers, while with a mind like the tongue of an ant-eater, rapid, dexterous, glutinous, he searched out every curl and twist of those Roman sentences, and sought out one person, always one person to sit beside.†
indolence = laziness
- His grim and caustic tongue reproved my indolence.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Indolent is also used in medicine to describe conditions (e.g., some tumors) that are slow to develop or heal and are painless. Very rarely it may refer to something that is slow and unenergetic without any connotation of laziness--such as small lapping waves.