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indolent
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Chance wayne was once barman here; Stuff moves with an indolent male grace that he may have unconsciously remembered admiring in Chance, Boss Finley's mistress, Miss Lucy, enters the cocktail lounge dressed in a ball gown elaborately ruffled and very bouffant like an antebellum Southern belle's.†
Scene 2.2indolent = lazy
- She raises her arms and stretches, as she moves indolently back to the chair.
Scene 3.3 *indolently = lazily
Definitions:
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(1)
(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Indolent is also used in medicine to describe conditions (e.g., some tumors) that are slow to develop or heal and are painless. Very rarely it may refer to something that is slow and unenergetic without any connotation of laziness--such as small lapping waves.