as in inertia
an inclination not to do work or engage in activities
a youth inclined more toward sloth than athletics
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Recent Examples of sloth
From a cat that accidentally made a worldwide journey in a shipping container to a sloth giving birth in a rare public display, all kinds of animals made the news in Minnesota this year.
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Riley Moser, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
The cave floor was covered in layers of fossils — including sloths, birds, and reptiles — mostly derived from owl pellets (indigestible remains coughed up by owls).
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Stillness is sloth and sloth is laziness and laziness is losing the herd.
—Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
The park is also home to a variety of wildlife, including sloths, birds, and monkeys.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
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Riley Moser, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
The cave floor was covered in layers of fossils — including sloths, birds, and reptiles — mostly derived from owl pellets (indigestible remains coughed up by owls).
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Stillness is sloth and sloth is laziness and laziness is losing the herd.
—Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
The park is also home to a variety of wildlife, including sloths, birds, and monkeys.
—Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloth
inertia
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Over that first act, however, the film also resists much narrative or thematic momentum, unfolding in glimpses and vignettes meant to underscore inertia and to emphasize production design.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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By inertia, some vestiges remain of the awful weeks in 2022 when enemy forces stood at the edge of Kyiv.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Sloth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloth. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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