All 6 Uses
indolent
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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- You're too fastidious, and too indolent, and too rich.†
Chpt 1indolent = lazy
- Fortunately he's very indolent, so indolent that it amounts to a sort of position.†
Chpt 19
- Fortunately he's very indolent, so indolent that it amounts to a sort of position.†
Chpt 19
- You're indolent.†
Chpt 22
- My indolence, at any rate, was one of the reasons I didn't go to Rome.†
Chpt 22 *indolence = laziness
- "Please remember my indolence," said Osmond.†
Chpt 22
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.