sluggard:
(also in short ‘slug’; plural: ‘sluggards‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a sluggard at work, (notice the pile of files to be dispatched)
a very lazy person;
a slob;
an idler;
a loafer,
a sluggard, laziness reduced him to a skeleton
Young James is a notorious sluggard in our home; he comes up with all sorts of excuses to not do anything useful.
When the boss is lenient with his/her staff, he/she makes an army of sluggards and his/her business is sure to go to dogs.
The economists are in the opinion that governments that encourage social welfare system breed nations of sluggards in which, after a generation or two, people get so lazy that they cannot even move from the places where they are laid, like the battery chicken which do not know how to find their own food once they are out of their cages!
