indolence

indolence

englanti

  1. laiskuus, velttous, saamattomuus

Esimerkkejä indolence sanan käytöstä:

born with an incurable 'indolence' of mind and body

'Indolence' and vacillation were legibly impressed on his appearance and expression.

Liittyvät sanat: indolent

Synonyymisanakirja

indolence

  1. joutilaisuus, toimettomuus, velttous, saamattomuus, laiskuus.

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Käännökset

englanti

saamattomuus Habitual laziness or sloth.
1814, w:Jane Austen|Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, ch. 11:

"It is indolence, Mr. Bertram, indeed. Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen."
1912, w:Stewart Edward White|Stewart Edward White, The Sign at Six, ch. 19:
Her whole figure expressed a tense vibrant life in singular contrast to the apparent indolence of the men at whom she was talking.
2001 Sept. 10, w:Garrison Keillor|Garrison Keillor, "http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000727,00.html In Praise of Lasiness," Time (retrieved 24 March 2014):
Now, after five weeks of doing nothing, I am an authority on the subject of indolence and glad to share my views with you.
puhekieltä insensibility, lack of pain
laziness, English indolence

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freelance, trance

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