Get to know Slothful better with 4 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like faineant or indolent.
Slothful meaning
lazy; idle; tending to sloth.
Using Slothful
- The main meaning on this page is: lazy; idle; tending to sloth.
- Useful related words include: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose.
- In the example corpus, slothful often appears in combinations such as: this slothful.
Context around Slothful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 16 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Slothful
- In this selection, "slothful" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 16 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, response and behavior stand out and add context to how "slothful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about this slothful behavior and stagnant or slothful. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "slothful" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with slothful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Year after year, you ache about this slothful behavior. (9 words)
He is unjustly known as Mieszko II Gnuśny (the "Lazy," "Stagnant" or "Slothful"). (13 words)
This slothful response was up there with the airlines dragging their feet over refunds. (14 words)
An Edwardian fantasy in which Gullivar Jones travels to Mars on a magic carpet and interacts with the slothful but innocent Hithers and the brutish but honorable Thithers. (28 words)
This slothful response was up there with the airlines dragging their feet over refunds. (14 words)
He is unjustly known as Mieszko II Gnuśny (the "Lazy," "Stagnant" or "Slothful"). (13 words)
Example sentences (4)
This slothful response was up there with the airlines dragging their feet over refunds.
Year after year, you ache about this slothful behavior.
An Edwardian fantasy in which Gullivar Jones travels to Mars on a magic carpet and interacts with the slothful but innocent Hithers and the brutish but honorable Thithers.
He is unjustly known as Mieszko II Gnuśny (the "Lazy," "Stagnant" or "Slothful").
Common combinations with slothful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: