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adjective

indolent

CEFR C2

wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with indolent, each labelled with its topic.

  • Three indolent months of skipped sessions cost more conditioning than the previous year of steady training had built.

    Fitness

  • The novel's indolent narrator spends two hundred pages on a sofa and still manages to notice everything worth noticing.

    Literature

  • The farming update rewards indolent play: leave the field alone for a week and the crops still come in.

    Gaming

  • Critics called the emperor indolent, though the archives show he read every petition sent to the palace.

    History

  • An indolent manager delays every decision until the deadline makes it for him.

    Business

  • What looks like an indolent teenager may be one who is sleeping badly, the study found.

    Psychology

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