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- adjective Not
industrious .
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Examples
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That is causing worry over the decline of leisure in the traditional French lifestyle, piquing many who feel that unindustrious Sundays are something of a birthright.
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Anyway, we are what we are, you a Jumbo, me a unindustrious beaver subsequently mixed with terrapin, blue jay, and I think bulldog.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Do lawyers get better medical and dental treatment? 2007
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The unindustrious father was prevailed upon to divide with the mother the burden of teaching them and undertook the task with a mild protest, employing what he humorously designated the "Socratic method."
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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In a word, nothing except the numbers of unindustrious poor that swarm at the gate excites any one idea of its former circumstances. '
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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In a word, nothing except the numbers of unindustrious poor that swarm at the gate excites any one idea of its former circumstances. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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me a unindustrious beaver subsequently mixed with terrapin, blue jay, and I think bulldog.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Do lawyers get better medical and dental treatment? 2007
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"Mouti," said John to the Zulu, who was lounging about in a way characteristic of that intelligent but unindustrious race, "inspan the horses.
Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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