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    slothful


    1. "Because it makes us lazy and slothful," she said


    2. 26His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knew


    3. But whether such a government us that of England, which, whatever may be its virtues, has never been famous for good economy; which, in time of peace, has generally conducted itself with the slothful and negligent profusion that is,


    4. to see if it would be offered food by the slothful bipeds


    5. The slothful man


    6. The desire of the slothful kills him; because his hands refuse to labour


    7. The slothful man says,


    8. him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work; I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the


    9. slothful man says; There is a lion in the way, the lion remains in the streets; like the door turns on its hinges, so does the slothful turn


    10. The slothful hides his hand in his chest; it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth

    11. 2 A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill; every man who takes it up will shake his hand


    12. and sister dragons, if they be lazy and slothful, they should


    13. 9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them, for we have seen the land, and note, it is very good, and are you still? Be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land


    14. Pro 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute


    15. Pro 18:9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster


    16. Heb 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises


    17. This is still a free society, and if one is a workaholic, think of the names he is not called—lazy, slothful, selfish, greedy, etc


    18. 26 "But his Lord answered him 'You wicked and slothful servant


    19. 18 And he spoke to them a parable also that they should pray at all times and not be slothful; Therewas a judge in a city who feared not God nor was ashamed for men and there was a widow in that city; and she came to him and said Avenge me of my adversary; And he would not for a long time: but afterwards he said within himself If of God I have no fear and before men I have no shame; yet because this widow vexes me I will avenge her that she come not at all times 23 and annoy me; And our Lord said Hear you what the judge of injustice said; And shall not God still more do vengeance for his elect who call on him in the night and in the day and grant them respite? I say to you He will do vengeance for them speedily


    20. His Lord answered and said to him you wicked and slothful servant you knew me 35 that I reap where I sowed not and gather where I did not scatter; it was incumbent on you to put my money to the bank and then I should come and seek it with its gains

    21. " And he answered me again saying "Everyone who is the servant of God and has his Lord in his heart asks of Him understanding and receives it and opens up every parable; and the words of the Lord become known to him which are spoken in parables? But those who are weak and slothful in prayer hesitate to ask anything from the Lord; but the Lord is full of compassion and gives without fail to all who ask Him


    22. But you having been strengthened by the holy Angel and having obtained from Him such intercession and not being slothful why do not you ask of the Lord understanding and receive it from Him?" I said to him "Sir having you with me I am necessitated to ask questions of you for you show me all things and converse with me; but if I were to see or hear these things without you I would then ask the Lord to explain them


    23. 1 The good workman receives boldly the bread of his labour but the slothful and remiss looks not his employer in the face


    24. 4 He exhortsus therefore with this reward in view to strive with our whole heart not to be slothful or remiss towards every good work


    25. “In their idle and most slothful conjectures,


    26. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience


    27. 3 "But if the servant is slothful and begins to say in his heart, `My master delays his coming,' and begins to mistreat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken, then the lord of that servant will come at a time when he looks not for him and, finding him unfaithful, will cast him out in disgrace


    28. 7 "And then said this ruler to those who stood by: `Take the money from this slothful servant and give it to him who has ten pounds


    29. ' But his lord answered: `You are an indolent and slothful steward


    30. 6:12 “Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises”

    31. and slothful national mind


    32. Why doubt that? Well, for the theft of a thousand, the law is smart to catch up with the poor to put them behind the bars but when it comes to the embezzled millions under the white collars, it is slothful in sniffing at the scent


    33. Is it reasonable that on one hand, He let His beloved (cpth) suffer the troubles of migration, but He meanwhile makes the wind carry such a slothful, dull and inane traveler, just after he has eaten a fatty dinner?! Absolutely not


    34. So man must be careful that his is not the "wicked and slothful


    35. For whatever reason the early conditions of our lives were active and interesting… or boring and slothful; we are imprisoned in that early normality by the programmed wiring of our subconscious mind


    36. They are only good in creating slothful tool-ease and boring tool-hardship


    37. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than so spent as to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy


    38. ’ It is not to be inferred from this, however, that the spirits of the just made perfect are in a state of slothful inactivity


    39. Seeing which Don Quixote quitted the soft down, and, nowise slothful, dressed himself in his chamois suit and put on his travelling boots to hide the disaster to his stockings


    40. ’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest

    41. “O Seamen are a Parcel of slothful Poltroons,” said he, “who cannot bear an honest Day’s Work and many dread the Southern Seas, for they have been corrupted by the Horror Tales soft-hearted Fools bring back from Guinea


    42. Thenardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever


    43. An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued


    44. Don Quixote was ever tireless and fearless, while Sancho Panza disliked hard knocks and preferred a slothful life of ease and plenty to the glorious career of privations which was the lot of the knight errant


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    Synonyms for "slothful"

    faineant indolent lazy otiose slothful work-shy inactive slow sluggish idle slack negligent remiss

    "slothful" definitions

    disinclined to work or exertion