sloth.

1. A habitual reluctance to work or make an effort.

2. A slow-moving tropical American mammal that usually lives hanging from trees.

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Words that belong together

• habitual sloth
• accused of sloth

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The sermon condemned sloth without asking why the workers were exhausted.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.