Definitions for sluggard

sluggard slug·gard

Spelling: [sluhg-erd]
IPA: /ˈslʌg ərd/

Sluggard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in sluggard (adgglrsu).

Definitions for sluggard

noun

  1. a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.

adjective

  1. lazy; sluggardly.

Origin of sluggard

First recorded in 1350-1400, sluggard is from the Middle English word slogarde. See slug1, -ard

Examples for sluggard

"The day is young, but I'm no sluggard, you know," said the lawyer.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

The fans who watch the game of life despise the sluggard in the strife.

While he had stood there a dolt and sluggard, she had satisfied her curiosity and stolen away.

We are told to go to the ant—at least the sluggard is—but for what?

I will not, like a sluggard, wear out my youth in idleness at home.

As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.

To escape this fault, a man must be either a saint or a sluggard.

No sluggard, be it known, can hope to catch grasshoppers with any degree of success.

I knew him for a sluggard in the morning; but, as it drew on toward noon, I lost my patience.

Word Value for sluggard
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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