Sloth is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLOTH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to be lazy
• To be idle.
• be lazy
NOUN:
• reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness
• a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws.
• a group of bears
• slow-moving animal of tropical America
• Slowness; tardiness.
• Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
• Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
• a disinclination to work or exert yourself
• any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
• apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a slow-moving arboreal mammal

Words related to SLOTH

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Words that contain SLOTH

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How to use SLOTH in a sentence

• Apathy creeps over the spirit, and sloth winds itself about our deeds.
• By redemption, the Church reveals not only a saving from rebellion, unbelief, and crime, but redemption from sloth, from indifference, from lack of purpose, and from low aims.
• The root of all my sins has been selfishness and sloth.
• A great flood of luxury and of sloth which had submerged the land is receding, and a new Britain is appearing.
• EASE, by, and sloth the mind grows stupid and the body torpid, and the whole man becomes insensible to every vital love, especially to conjugial love, 249.
• Irritability urges us to take a step as much too soon, as sloth does too late.
• It did not matter in the least that she lay and slept like a sloth while poor little Miss Penelope was up and working like a beaver.
• Among them was the only sloth any of us had seen on the trip.
• Love of liberty and sloth their prevailing passions, 102.
• But, through their own sloth, possessed as yet but a small part of it.
• We have already seen how the warlike character of so many monarchs gives the lie to these statements, so far as they tax the Assyrian kings with sloth and idleness.
• When affliction comes to her, the good in her nature struggles to the surface through the heavy mass of sloth.
• It can certainly be no hardship to a pig to encourage him in a life of sloth and gluttony which appeals to his taste and to my profit.
• The leading distinction between a rising and a fallen people is the disposition to industry and exertion, in the one, and to sloth and negligence, in the other.
• Sloth is a dreadful illness and must be cured at once, in childhood.
• All this means harm to the Indian, for he is naturally lazy and a friend of sloth.
• Why, Hector, hast thou left the fight? this sloth Not well befits thee.
• Speaking with all seriousness, we have no faith in mental activity purchased at the expense of physical sloth.
• He who fails to make many arrests shows sloth or ill will to his lord.
• The Indians say they walk under the limbs like the sloth.
• Guard against idleness and sloth, and cling unto that which profiteth mankind, whether young or old, whether high or low.
• The whole world would perish from sloth, if no one needed longer to work for his daily bread.
• Other causes than luxury and sloth destroy Republics.
• Let the white Georgian come out of his sloth, and the black will rise with him.
• The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor.
• Another species of this animal has been discovered in New South Wales, which lives in the tops of the trees and, in manners, bears much resemblance to the sloth.
• Great things are achieved only by great exertions, and glory was never the reward of sloth.
• It is his grief and pain that within the cloister walls, whence he has come, no true vigil is kept, but that sloth and ease have taken the place of watching and vigil and prayer.
• The creature had exactly the mild but repulsive features of a sloth, the same low forehead and slow gestures.
• It suffers by nothing more, than by neglecting it, and by an Habit of Sloth and Inactivity.

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