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indolent

/in-dl-uhnt/US // ˈɪn dl ənt //UK // (ˈɪndələnt) //

懒洋洋的,懒散,懒散的人,懒洋洋

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person.
    • : Pathology. causing little or no pain; inactive or relatively benign: an indolent ulcer that is not painful and is slow to heal.

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Examples

  • I mean, who else could possibly be as indolent as a teachers' union member?

  • This kind of cancer can be so indolent that patients often die with it than from it.

  • In part, that is because neuroendocrine cancers tend to be quite slow growing, or indolent.

  • Salon wrote: “Hilton is the one everyone has come to see, and her indolent, dull coolness does not disappoint.”

  • [Rushdie] cut to a passage that imagined the most indolent couple imaginable, Linda Evangelista and Goncharov's Ilya Oblomov.

  • An indolent blonde, fond of dancing, but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints.

  • To this indolent, pleasure-loving son, nothing could be in greater contrast than the father.

  • The Portuguese are a people that require rousing; they are indolent, lazy, and generally helpless.

  • They are equally indolent and cowardly, when glutted with prey; and they seldom attack men unless they find them asleep.

  • Michel, who was so indolent that he would not pay the slightest attention to his own business affairs, in years gone by!