| Slothful |
Universal |
18 Jan 2026 |
| Indolent |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Nov 2025 |
| Workshy |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Nov 2025 |
| Not wanting to work |
Newsday |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Idle |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
06 Sep 2025 |
| Averse to work |
LA Times Daily |
22 Aug 2025 |
| Idle way to set the table around the third variable (4) |
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| What word describes a faineant person? (4) |
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| Slothful, bone idle |
The Times Concise |
26 May 2025 |
| Reluctant to exert oneself putting axis in place (4) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Apr 2025 |
| Like some Sundays or rivers |
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| Far from ambitious |
Newsday |
16 Mar 2025 |
| Apt to do nothing |
Newsday |
05 Mar 2025 |
| Indolent |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Feb 2025 |
| Having little hustle |
New York Times |
22 Jan 2025 |
| Idle |
Mirror Tea Time |
27 Dec 2024 |
| Slothful |
Newsday |
19 Dec 2024 |
| Disinclined to work |
Mirror Classic |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Not eager to move |
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| ____ Susan, a revolving tray on a table used to help distribute food (4) |
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| Not willing to work (4) |
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| Unwilling to work |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jul 2024 |
| Poem sung about Zulu being idle |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jul 2024 |
| Lacking get-up-and-go |
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| Uninterested in working, not a go- getter (4) |
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| Uninclined to work (4) |
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| Like a goldbrick |
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| Like a couch potato |
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| Idle person: - bones |
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| Idle person:___ bones |
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| 1 down |
The Guardian Quick |
02 Mar 2024 |
| Like loafers |
Premier Sunday |
18 Feb 2024 |
| Sitting around and letting someone else do the chores say |
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| "___ Sunday" (noted "SNL" short) |
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| Avoiding working |
Family Time |
15 Jan 2024 |
| Idle, disinclined to work (4) |
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| Far from industrious |
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| ___ Susan (rotating tray) |
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| ___ Sunday |
New York Times |
20 Jul 2023 |
| Indolent |
The Times Concise |
22 Jun 2023 |
| Averse to activity |
Newsday |
28 May 2023 |
| Unwilling to work, reclined drinking last of fizz |
The Guardian Quiptic |
23 Jan 2023 |
| Not inclined to hustle |
Newsday |
20 Jan 2023 |
| Indolent |
The Guardian Quick |
29 Nov 2022 |
| Indolent |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 Nov 2022 |
| Like a ne'er-do-well |
New York Times |
25 Nov 2022 |
| Like some Sundays |
The Washington Post |
14 Apr 2022 |
| Like some Sundays |
LA Times Daily |
14 Apr 2022 |
| Like a couch potato |
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| Averse to work |
Newsday |
16 Feb 2022 |
| Like a couch potato |
Universal |
24 Jan 2022 |
| Good-for-nothing non-professional outside zone |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Jan 2022 |
| Indolent |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Dec 2021 |
| Like some Sundays |
USA Today |
02 Nov 2021 |
| Idle |
The Times Concise |
25 Oct 2021 |
| ___ Susan (dining table centerpiece) |
New York Times |
21 Jun 2021 |
| Song about Zulu that's work-shy |
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| Like some assumptions and afternoons |
USA Today |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Lost all the letters by closing library and doing nothing |
Irish Times Crosaire |
31 Mar 2021 |
| Averse to activity |
Newsday |
04 Dec 2020 |
| Slow to get moving having left street map back in city |
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| ___ Susan (rotating tray) |
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| Averse to working |
Newsday |
04 Aug 2020 |
| ___ Susan |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Jul 2020 |
| Indolent |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 May 2020 |
| Far from industrious |
|
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| "The ___ Song," 2011 song by Bruno Mars from his debut studio album "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" |
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| Poem sung about Zulu being indolent |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Mar 2020 |
| Unwilling to work |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Mar 2020 |
| Like some summer days |
|
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| What you'd be called if you sat all day doing nothing |
|
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| Slow amateur grasps atomic number |
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| Like a 55-Down |
USA Today |
05 Dec 2018 |
| Like a sloth |
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| Lost all the letters - an unknown quantity might be good for nothing |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Oct 2018 |
| Like Susan under a counter? |
Universal |
23 Sep 2018 |
| Unlikely to work hard |
USA Today |
01 Sep 2018 |
| Song about Zulu being indolent |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jul 2018 |
| Not very active |
|
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| Far from hardworking |
USA Today |
16 Feb 2018 |
| Unlikely to work hard |
|
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| Like Susan under a counter? |
|
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| Far from hardworking |
|
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| Like a 55-Down |
|
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| Slothful |
USA Today |
28 Jan 2017 |
| Slothful |
|
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| Likely to loaf |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2016 |
| Idle |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Dec 2016 |
| Averse to labour |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
09 Oct 2016 |
| Short narrative poem about Zulu avoiding work |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Aug 2016 |
| Slothful |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Jun 2016 |
| Disinclined to work |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Apr 2016 |
| Slothful |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Jan 2016 |
| Likely to loaf |
|
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| Far from ambitious |
Newsday |
30 Dec 2015 |
| Averse to work |
Newsday |
06 Sep 2015 |
| Not inclined to exert oneself |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
09 Aug 2015 |
| Unwilling to work |
The Times Concise |
11 Jun 2015 |
| Sluggish |
Premier Sunday |
24 May 2015 |
| Like a sluggard |
LA Times Daily |
12 May 2015 |
| Indolent |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Feb 2015 |
| Sluggish |
|
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| Averse to work |
|
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| Like a sluggard |
|
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| Averse to activity |
|
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| Far from ambitious |
|
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| Like a couch potato |
|
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| Allergic to work |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Far from industrious |
|
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| Making no effort |
|
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| Like loafers |
|
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| Shiftless |
|
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| Do-nothing |
|
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| Word before Susan or Sunday |
New York Times |
20 Aug 2012 |
| Apt to do nothing |
|
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| Allergic to work |
|
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| Word before Susan or Sunday |
|
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| Beck's "Flies" off "Mutations" |
|
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| Unlikely to hustle |
|
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| Like bums |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Like a couch potato |
|
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| Shirking working |
|
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| Uninterested in working |
|
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| Like a couch potato |
|
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| Unlike a go-getter |
|
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| Sluggish |
|
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| Like a shirker |
|
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| Like some summer days |
|
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| Like a shirker |
|
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| Slow-moving, as a river |
|
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| Like a couch potato |
|
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| Work-averse |
|
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| Likely to loaf |
|
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| Like some summer days |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Having no drive |
|
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| Like couch potatoes |
|
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| Slow-moving, as a river |
|
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| Slow-moving, as a river |
|
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| Ideal for tubing, as a river |
|
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| Ideal for tubing, as a river |
|
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| Feckless |
|
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| Sluggish |
|
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| Shirking working |
|
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| "___ Sunday" ("SNL" viral video) |
|
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| Hardly industrious |
|
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| Feckless |
|
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| Sluggish |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Unlikely to exert oneself |
|
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| Like loafers |
|
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| Hardly industrious |
|
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| Shirking working |
|
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| Averse to activity |
|
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| Unindustrious |
|
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| Shiftless |
|
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| Like some swinging Susans? |
|
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| Not assiduous |
|
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| Word with "bones" or "Susan" |
|
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| Like a slugabed |
|
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| Shiftless |
|
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| Like many loafers |
|
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| Shiftless |
|
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| Like many loafers |
|
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| Sluggish |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Likely to loaf |
|
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| Slow-moving |
|
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| Slow-moving |
|
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| Unlikely to leave the couch |
|
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| Work-shy |
|
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| Shirking working |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Unenterprising |
|
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| Unmotivated |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Shirking working |
|
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| Far from industrious |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Displaying sloth |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Averse to exertion |
|
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| Averse to exertion |
|
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| Word with bones or Susan |
|
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| Do-nothing |
|
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| Otiose |
|
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| Listless |
|
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| Displaying sloth |
|
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| Averse to exertion |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Not likely to work |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Unlikely to work hard |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Work-shirking |
|
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| Indolent |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Hard to motivate |
|
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| Work-shy |
|
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| Shiftless |
|
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| Never getting off one's duff |
|
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| Foot-dragging |
|
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| Shirking working |
|
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| Like a do-nothing |
|
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| Slothful |
|
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| Ergophobic |
|
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| Shirking working |
|
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| Ergophobic |
|
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| Susan, for one |
|
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| Shiftless |
|
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| Moving slowly |
|
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| Word before bones or Susan |
|
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| Having no get-up-and-go |
|
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| Like summer days, often |
|
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| Jes' sittin' in the sun |
|
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| Like a certain Susan |
|
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| Slothlike |
|
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| Otiose |
|
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| Not industrious |
|
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| Shiftless |
|
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| Like a slugabed |
|
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| Word with Susan or Mary |
|
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| Susan or bones |
|
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| Not energetic |
|
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| Susan, e.g. |
|
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| Kind of bones |
|
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| Unambitious |
|
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| Sluggish. |
|
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| Indolent. |
|
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| Prone to idleness. |
|
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| Slothful. |
|
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| Not eager to exert oneself. |
|
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| Slow. |
|
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| Averse to labor. |
|
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| "The ___, leaden-stepping hours." |
|
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| Lackadaisical. |
|
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| Kind of Susan. |
|
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| Reluctant to act. |
|
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| Do-nothing. |
|
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| Not eager to work. |
|
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| Taking it easy. |
|
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| Shiftless. |
|
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| Torpid. |
|
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| Like summer days |
|
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| Not energetic. |
|
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| ___ Susan. |
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