Characterized by a disinclination to activity or exertion; tending to be idle.
He'd stayed in bed for days, ignoring the growing pile of chores. His parents worried about his slothful ways, his complete lack of energy for anything beyond staring at the ceiling. They just wanted him to get up and do something.
The hermit crab, usually a hurried scuttler, seemed unusually slothful today. It clung to a barnacle, its antennae barely twitching, clearly in no mood to seek out a new shell. Even the tide's gentle nudge couldn't rouse it from its torpor.
He watched the others rush around, their energy a blur. He felt too tired to even lift a finger, a heavy blanket of laziness keeping him still. His slothful nature made him want to stay put, simply doing nothing.
He stared at the stack of unsorted, hand-knitted alpaca wool. A faint sigh escaped him. He knew he should start, but the thought of all that yarn, the counting and dividing, made him feel utterly slothful. He’d rather just watch the dust motes dance in the sunbeam.
The old man, a hermit for decades, found his days a slow, quiet progression. He moved with the deliberate pace of a man who had no need for haste, his every action tinged with a comfortable, slothful air. The sun warmed his weathered face as he watched the dust motes dance in the still air.
The morning sun streamed in, but Mark just burrowed deeper into his blankets. His boss had called twice already, but the thought of moving, of facing the day’s demands, felt utterly exhausting. This slothful inertia was a comfortable trap he couldn't seem to escape.
He lounged on the sofa, a picture of pure slothful contentment. While everyone else bustled with chores, he just stayed put, his only exertion being the slow blinking of his eyes. It wasn't laziness, exactly, just a deep disinclination for doing anything at all.
The air hung thick and still, mirroring the profound inertia that had settled over Barnaby. Days blurred into a haze of unwashed teacups and unread scientific journals. He’d always been prone to this *slothful* disposition, a disinclination to activity that felt like an invisible anchor, keeping him firmly rooted to his armchair.
The lone stargazer, perched on the frozen tundra, shivered. Each thought of moving to adjust his telescope felt like a Herculean task, his limbs heavy with a profound disinclination to activity. He was utterly slothful, a statue against the biting wind, too tired to even chase away the persistent frostbite.
The antique brass astrolabe sat gathering dust. Its owner, a renowned cartographer, had become remarkably slothful, preferring the warmth of his hearth to charting uncharted territories. He’d always been driven, but lately, even the thought of unfolding a map felt like too much effort.
He had always been rather slothful, content to let the dust settle rather than lift a finger. Even when the urgent need for action arose, a heavy inertia seemed to hold him back. He preferred a quiet nap over any kind of exertion, no matter how vital.
The ancient gears ground to a halt, a mournful whine echoing through the cavernous automaton workshop. Years of disuse had rendered even the grandest mechanisms slothful, their once precise movements now sluggish, heavy with dust and inertia. A single, oil-stained hand hung limp, an emblem of their profound disinclination to activity.
The mechanic stared at the rusted sprocket, a sigh escaping his lips. He felt utterly slothful, the sheer effort of wrestling it free seeming insurmountable. Dust motes danced in the faint light filtering through the workshop window, mocking his inertia.
After a week of grueling work, Sarah felt utterly slothful, barely able to lift a finger. The thought of even getting up to fetch a glass of water seemed like an insurmountable task, and she was content to just lie there, enjoying the pleasant inaction.
He found himself unable to even begin the tedious task of cataloging the dried kelp samples, a profound disinclination to exertion seizing him. The thought of sifting through each brittle frond felt utterly overwhelming, a truly slothful feeling that kept him rooted to his chair.
The prolonged inactivity had made him quite slothful. He felt an overwhelming inertia, a profound disinclination to exert himself, preferring his comfortable torpor to any strenuous undertaking. Even the most mundane tasks seemed insurmountable.
Her usual vivacity was absent. Instead, a lethargic inertia had overtaken her; she seemed utterly slothful, barely stirring from her cot, her once keen gaze now dulled by an inexplicable disinclination to exertion, to even the simplest task.
Barnaby's usual slothful demeanor was entirely absent as he frantically scrambled to reattach the delicate chronometer on the dirigible's navigational array. A precipitous drop in altitude, caused by a ruptured hydrogen bladder, demanded immediate, vigorous action; idleness now meant certain catastrophe.
Barnaby, a veritable virtuoso of inertia, embraced his slothful nature with the ardour of a seasoned epicurean. His days were a meticulous arrangement of reclining, contemplating the existential ennui of dust motes, and strategizing new apexes of indolence. He believed that any exertion beyond the procurement of sustenance was a egregious affront to his profound philosophical commitment to absolute repose.
Barnaby's penchant for languid repose, particularly when faced with the arduous task of decontaminating his meticulously curated collection of antique badger-hair combs, was frankly astounding. His friends, accustomed to his generally slothful demeanor, suspected he was cultivating a new species of immobile fungi on his person.
Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.