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‘I'm waiting for those sluggards to bring my steak’
‘It's amazing how much guilt I enjoy loading myself with - the guilt of being a sluggard.’
‘Dujon had not chosen welfare because she was a sluggard or had a baby out of wedlock.’
‘What a relief not having to carry those three sluggards on my back!’
‘The American masses are perceived as apathetic sluggards, whose votes would be better exercised by enlightened foreign observers.’
‘You have no decency in you, you drunken sluggard!’
‘He planned to write 137 novels in his Comedie Humaine, but - the sluggard!’
‘When dawn breaks, this nocturnal bird turns into an impossible sluggard.’
‘Pool is on the agenda, I think, although card is subject to change depending on when the other sluggards can get their asses into gear.’
‘I've sat in countless staff meetings where doctors who see fifty patients a day are held up as examples to the rest of us sluggards who see twenty-five to thirty.’
‘If, on the other hand, we say of a boy, ‘He's not going anywhere,’ we are not praising his steadfastness but damning him as an ambitionless sluggard.’
‘The graffiti-daubing sluggard who, at Oxford University only sixteen years earlier, had spent more time drinking than working had come a very long way.’
‘Far from being a national icon, Bonaparte is a weakling, a coward, a sluggard, and an ignoramus.’
‘We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, and the industrious ant, a sluggard.’
‘Is it the sluggard who refuses to seek work when there is work available?’
‘This disposes of the last remnant of his reputation and wholly destroys his main usefulness as a moral agent, since it will make the sluggard hesitate to go to him any more.’
‘Like a person sitting in the car park outside the gym, knowing they've got to go in and get exercising, I am perpetually a conversational sluggard.’
‘These ants: they always claim to work hard, but in truth they're nothing but lazy idle sluggards!’
‘We are also enjoined to learn lessons from animals: ‘Go to the ant, you sluggard, see its ways and become wise!’’
‘That is why, while I often criticize the sluggards and incompetents in government, my admiration for the good guys is boundless.’
‘Franklin's admonition ‘Up sluggard and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough’ has rung in Hall's ears throughout the transformation.’