Indolent

"Indolent" in a Sentence (6 examples)

He was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards.

Indolent youth creates a begging old age.

"We are not hangmen to torture a prisoner till he confesses," observed some one in a quiet and rather indolent tone.

The indolent girl resisted doing her homework.

Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife’s: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!

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