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indolent
adjective
Inclined to avoid work or exertion.
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The indolent apprentice waited for others to finish the task.
The satire's indolent hero spends every afternoon inventing excuses.
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indolencenoun
A habitual reluctance to exert effort.
The fable presents indolence as the reason the orchard is neglected.
In a workshop fable, an apprentice's indolence leaves simple cleaning tasks undone because he habitually avoids effort whenever another person might take over.
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