Word: slothly
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...might have remained a thing of beauty and a toy forever. But the agent of its obscurity was also the cause of its revival. For too long, the combustion engine befouled the atmosphere and lulled Americans into a dangerous sloth. But today, the new conservation and the high incidence of circulatory and cardiac diseases have caused the natural life to be reappraised. The bicycle no longer seems juvenile; indeed, it offers the country transportation, romance and exercise at a fee that advertisers like to summarize as "pennies...
Harvard's sloth-like play might be attributed to the physical beating Cornell administered the night before in the semifinal contest that the Crimson squad struggled to pull...
Anyone who read A Clockwork Orange before having his eyeballs poached by Stanley Kubrick's movie version knows Anthony Burgess as a writer with a hearty appetite for the cosmic bite into such subjects as original sin, good v. evil and spiritual sloth-not to mention the need for individual moral choice. He is also intimidatingly prolific and versatile...
...poet snores through the months of dormancy, then for a moment slips free of neurosis, professional chores, friends, money problems, sexual despair, family clatter and habits of sloth, and writes six lines. Four of these are bad, and as he sinks back into the murk at the bottom of his mind, he scratches them out. In a working lifetime he may only slip free for a very few days of these moments, and may accumulate enough good lines to fill at best a few hundred pages...
Frank moves with the cat-like precision of a man who fears that the slightest delay, the faintest sign of tarry, will be interpreted as sloth by those who so impatiently await their pizza...