Wordie: Sloth

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(n): a certain degree of unwillingness

(n): any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

(n): primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America

(n): apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

(n): an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace

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4 months ago chained_bear said:

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"...leaving them on a broad veranda with a number of domesticated creatures on it, marmosets of three different kinds, an old bald toucan, a row of sleepy parrots, something hairy in the background that might have been a sloth or an anteater or even a doormat but that it farted from time to time, looking around censoriously on each occasion, and a strikingly elegant blue heron that walked in and out."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 177

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