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Another word for sluggard

noun

A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity:

bum¹, drone¹, fainÃ©ant, good-for-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, slugabed, wastrel. (Informal) do-little, do-nothing, lazybones, slug². (Slang) slouch. See industrious

adjective

Resistant to exertion and activity:

fainÃ©ant, idle, indolent, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggish. (Informal) do-nothing. Idiom: bone lazy. See action, industrious

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Another statue, "The Sluggard," of equal merit, was exhibited in 1886; and a charming statuette of a nude figure of a girl looking over her shoulder at a frog, called "Needless Alarms," was completed in the same year, and presented by the artist to Sir John Millais in acknowledgment of the gift by the latter of his picture, "Shelling Peas."

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