All 3 Uses of
indolent
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- St. Clare was indolent and careless of money.
Chpt 1.18 *indolent = lazy
- Indolent and childish, unsystematic and improvident, it was not to be expected that servants trained under her care should not be so likewise; and she had very justly described to Miss Ophelia the state of confusion she would find in the family, though she had not ascribed it to the proper cause.†
Chpt 1.18
- Here is a whole class,—debased, uneducated, indolent, provoking,—put, without any sort of terms or conditions, entirely into the hands of such people as the majority in our world are; people who have neither consideration nor self-control, who haven't even an enlightened regard to their own interest,—for that's the case with the largest half of mankind.†
Chpt 2.19
Definition:
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(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work