Word: sluggardly
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European Unity. Britain has been blamed as the sluggard who has refused to join, and thereby weakened hope of, a West European army and federation, projects high on the list of U.S. foreign policy. Churchill cleared the air on the issue by putting his government squarely behind West Europe's unity, but only as an ally and not as a member...
Brusquely he stopped the panic in Hanoi, canceled the order for evacuation of women & children, brought his own wife from France to his side. Like a burst from a Tommy gun, he cut down and broke incompetent and sluggard officers, cleared the goldbrickers out of the saloons and brothels, conferred on the worst of them what his soldiers came to call "the order of the steamship ticket," i.e., packed them off to France...
After Pearl Harbor, Bob decides to sign up for active service. Jim, as usual, is a sluggard. He, too, seems to have acquired a wife, despite his civvies. "You're in a tough spot, all right," Bob says, leering. "But it's different with me. I go in as an officer and I'll make enough money to support my wife and baby!" Later Jim is drafted as a private, while Bob is commanding men. "It wasn't any time at all before I got my captain's bars...
...staunch advocate of matrimony. The Church even tried to keep Christian marriages from going on the rocks by offering its members advice more detailed than anything Dorothy Dix ever attempted. Saint Chrysostom (347-407) wrote that no wife should say to her husband: " 'Unmanly coward and lazy sluggard, look at that man . . . His wife wears jewels and goes out with a pair of milk-white mules. She is attended by a troop of slaves, but you have cowered down and live to no purpose.' But if a wife does so speak, her husband shall...
...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...