Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.

In Madness and Civilization, Foucault writes that the practice of sentencing prisoners and madmen to forced labor arose because of the (Calvinist) idea that "God helps those who help themselves." Just as homosexuality was once considered a perverse variant of the sin of willfulness, so too was sloth [from the same German word which gives us "slow"] once considered an absurd - because, so the thinking went, the slothful person was poverty-stricken - variant of the sin of pride. Now that we've seen where the worship of speed has landed us, we should know better. See: DAWDLE, INDOLENT, LOLLYGAG.

disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"