Idleness is rotten sluggardy. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
sluggardy — … Useful english dictionary
creeping — Synonyms and related words: all fours, ambling, amphibian, anguine, atiptoe, atmospherics, batrachian, blaring, blasting, blind spot, cautious, cautiousness, circumspect, circumspection, claudicant, colubriform, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping… … Moby Thesaurus
deliberateness — Synonyms and related words: aforethought, calculatedness, calculation, canniness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, circumspection, creeping, deliberate stages, deliberation, discretion, dolce far niente, drawl,… … Moby Thesaurus
deliberation — Synonyms and related words: advisement, aforethought, airing, analysis, application, brainwork, brooding, buzz session, calculatedness, calculation, canniness, canvassing, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness,… … Moby Thesaurus
drawl — Synonyms and related words: accent, bark, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, broad accent, brogue, burr, buzz, cackle, cautiousness, chant, chirp, circumspection, coo, creeping, croak, crow, deliberateness, deliberation,… … Moby Thesaurus
foot dragging — Synonyms and related words: Micawberish, ambling, antipathy, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, averseness, aversion, backward, backwardness, blockage, blocking, cautious, cautiousness, check, circumspect, circumspection, claudicant, clogging,… … Moby Thesaurus
idleness — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, big deal, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, dawdling, deliberateness, deliberation, do nothing policy, do nothingism, do nothingness, dolce far niente,… … Moby Thesaurus
indolence — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, do nothing… … Moby Thesaurus
inertia — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, contemplation, contemplative life, creeping, deadliness, deathliness, deliberateness, deliberation, dilatoriness, do nothing… … Moby Thesaurus
languor — Synonyms and related words: abeyance, acedia, adynamia, anemia, apathy, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, blues, boredom, brain fag, cachexia, cachexy, catalepsy, catatonia, cautiousness, circumspection, coma, cowardice, creeping, deadliness,… … Moby Thesaurus
