Sluggardy

Slug´gard`y


n. 1. The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.
Idleness is rotten sluggardy.
- Chaucer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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