Laziness
404. Laziness (See also Carelessness.)
- Bailey Junior nonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit ]
- Bailey, Beetle goldbricking army private. [Comics: Horn, 105–106]
- Belacqua too slothful in life, he repents after death. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy ]
- Bshyst demon of sloth. [Zoroastrian Myth.: Leach, 175]
- Capp, Andy deliberately jobless and shirks household duties. [Comics: Horn, 82]
- Datchery, Dick hotel resident with no occupation. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood ]
- Jughead terminally indolent, save when hunger dictates. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87]
- Krebs, Maynard G. for whom “work” is a four-letter word. [TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” in Terrace, II, 64–66]
- Lake of Idleness whoever drank thereof, grew immediately “faint and weary.” [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene ]
- Lazybones popular song by Hoagy Carmichael (1933). [Am. Music: Kinkle, II, 268]
- Lester, Jeeter hapless sharecropper too lazy to keep his large family from starving. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road ]
- Little Boy Blue asleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11]
- Oblomov indolent landowner, always in robe and slippers. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov ]
- phlegm humor effecting temperament of sluggishness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130]
- sloth arboreal mammal, always associated with sluggishness. [Zoology: Misc.]
- Speed an “illiterate loiterer”; slow-moving servant. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona ]
Lechery (See LUST .)
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