Definitions for sloth

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sloth sloth

Spelling: [slawth or especially for 2, slohth]

IPA: /slɔθ or especially for 2, sloʊθ/

Sloth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in sloth (hlost).

Definitions for sloth

noun

1. habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
2. any of several slow-moving, arboreal, tropical American edentates of the family Bradypodidae, having a long, coarse, grayish-brown coat often of a greenish cast caused by algae, and long, hooklike claws used in gripping tree branches while hanging or moving along in a habitual upside-down position.
3. a pack or group of bears.

Origin of sloth

1125-75; Middle English slowth (see slow, -th¹); replacing Old English slǣwth, derivative of slǣw, variant of slāw slow

Examples for sloth

Hard-wired into the psyche of many is the idea that somehow time off is akin to sloth.

Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul, Ambition its activity and heat.

Here are the Russians, they will punish us for our sloth and hubris, but if we make Johnny read better!

Am I the cause that he hath sunk in sloth, and men scoff at his name and his strength?'

The conservative narrative would be built around some idea of liberal licentiousness or sloth or some such.

To her well-wishers it seemed as if the people had given itself to sloth and indulgence.

Thanksgiving is about sloth and gluttony, as well as a dash of envy and greed.

She's an old thing herself, and of course she hasn't the nerves of a sloth.

Mealy-bug is usually a sign of sloth on the part of the gardener.

This disease was thought to stem from bad climate, and sloth.