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ALL meanings of sloth

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  • noun sloth habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness. 1
  • noun sloth any of several slow-moving, arboreal, tropical American edentates of the family Bradypodidae, having a long, coarse, grayish-brown coat often of a greenish cast caused by algae, and long, hooklike claws used in gripping tree branches while hanging or moving along in a habitual upside-down position. 1
  • noun sloth a pack or group of bears. 1
  • noun sloth animal 1
  • noun sloth desire to do nothing 1
  • noun sloth deadly sin 1
  • uncountable noun sloth Sloth is laziness, especially with regard to work. 0
  • countable noun sloth A sloth is an animal from Central and South America. Sloths live in trees and move very slowly. 0
  • noun sloth any of several shaggy-coated arboreal edentate mammals of the family Bradypodidae, esp Bradypus tridactylus (three-toed sloth or ai) or Choloepus didactylus (two-toed sloth or unau), of Central and South America. They are slow-moving, hanging upside down by their long arms and feeding on vegetation 0
  • noun sloth reluctance to work or exert oneself 0
  • noun sloth disinclination to work or exert oneself; indolence; laziness; idleness 0
  • noun sloth slowness; delay 0
  • noun sloth any of a family (Bradypodidae) of slow-moving, tree-dwelling edentate mammals of tropical Central and South America that hang, back down, from branches and feed on fruits and vegetation, including a three-toed species (genus Bradypus) and a two-toed species (genus Choloepus) 0
  • noun sloth any of various families of extinct, ground-dwelling edentate mammals 0
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