In order words, it must be demonstrated that the accused director's slothfulness was a cause of the company's loss.

But despite his apparent slothfulness, Donald proves that he is physically strong.

That was what my hero had become, the epitome of slothfulness, a road hunter.

Not that slothfulness looked like all that terrible a weakness.

There was the congenital slothfulness of the natives, who saw no reason to exert themselves for anything beyond their personal needs.

A sense of slothfulness grips all visitors, including Jadis.

Or use your slothfulness as a grand excuse to visit local nurseries, which have more interesting annuals every year.

Peace reduces the necessity for labor, and induces slothfulness.

But the academic buzz around the subject isn't just a case of eggheads rationalizing their slothfulness.

Galeon was looked upon as a great ornament to his society, which he is said to have roused from slothfulness.

Despite his slothfulness and his unkemptness, Haystack was a wise old bird.

That said, the current ether does seem to demand pleasing palliatives designed for a sort of refined slothfulness.

A peasant who could not pay his taxes should be executed, in order to prevent him falling into the temptations of slothfulness and public disorder.

The fifth of the Five Precepts, aimed at slothfulness caused by drink or drugs, seems to be less important than the other four.

(/ undertake the rule of training to refrain from liquors which engender slothfulness).

If we wait we shall have to row in both directions, or even walk," and again planetary slothfulness carried the day.

The correction ensuing on their disobedience to overseers, or slothfulness in business, is often very severe, and sometimes desperate.

Ms. Hampson accuses the authorities of "bureaucratic slothfulness, a complete unwillingess to face an unpleasant subject."

And the mass stirred a little at his approach, and put forth with infinite slothfulness a huge and toad-shaped head.

He will rise not from his place, even in the ravening of hunger, but will wait in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice.

Or more subtly, will they assure our physical needs to such a degree that the human race will wallow in slothfulness, degenerate and perish.

"Irealizethat the return of warm weather is itself an invitation to sloth, but not to slothfulness of such an advanced degree as I observedthisspring."

The Labor Ministry and unions have teamed up to place posters urging weekend slothfulness in offices all over Tokyo.

It was his parents' unending and unconnected conversations; they left a veritable wake of slothfulness, a trail of torpor.

And he who was in every need my succour Said: "Turn thee hitherward; see two of them Come fastening upon slothfulness their teeth."