indolent

lazy or avoiding effort

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Other words with the dol / dolor root

Indolent once leans toward not troubled by pain; now it means too comfortable with inaction.

The indolent committee delayed every decision until someone else did the work.

Indolent needs care because the modern meaning is not pain-free in a medical sense. The useful shift is from untroubled ease into laziness: no urgency, no exertion, no push.

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