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adj. 1a. of, or relating to the sloth, esp. in its slow and apathetic behavior
Pevin Lekay has a slothful attitude toward religion.
slothful by Max December 7, 2004
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the state of pissing in an empty soda or beer bottle and pouring it down the dorm sink
Bob was pretty slothful during the party last night.
slothful by pwnfuckmissile September 30, 2007
A person with lazy habits who increasingly worsens.
"Hey Slothful Mark - Can we have a garage sale at your house in 2 months?" - s said

"Oh yah, dooooo, we can have one." - Slothful Mark replied

....every day for the next two months:
"Don't forget to ask the other tenants about the garage sale!" - s to Slothful mark


...2 months later(night before the garage sale):
"What the imboo?!?! You still haven't told your neighbors?" - s to Slothful mark

"Whaaaaatttttttt?" - S.M. to s
slothful by leroy January 28, 2005
NOUN:
sloth·ful
/ˈsləʊθfʊl/ 🔊
a lazy feeling when gaming without a clear purpose and feeling bored. all about being unproductive and not making much sense.
SIMILAR: idle, boredom, laziness.
"During the long summer break, Mark often fell into a slothful state, spending hours gaming aimlessly, feeling unproductive and bored without a clear purpose."
slothful by therealbestfriend October 1, 2023

Slothful Induction Fallacy

The logical fallacy of rejecting a well-supported conclusion despite overwhelming evidence, usually because accepting it would require uncomfortable changes or challenge cherished beliefs. It's the inverse of hasty generalization: hasty induction jumps to conclusions with too little evidence; slothful induction refuses to reach conclusions despite ample evidence. Classic in climate denial, vaccine skepticism, and any domain where evidence conflicts with identity.
"Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree, and the evidence is overwhelming, but I'm just not convinced." That's Slothful Induction Fallacy—refusing to draw the conclusion that all available evidence points to. At some point, skepticism becomes denial, and evidence becomes irrelevant."

Slothful Reward Bias

A manipulative tactic where someone offers a monetary or tangible reward not as a genuine incentive for a task, but as a trap to completely discredit you. The tests or challenges are designed by the reward-giver to be unwinnable or rigged, giving them total control over the narrative. When you fail to meet their impossible standards, they use your attempt to claim the reward as "proof" of your incompetence, greed, or bad faith, thus achieving their real goal of destroying your credibility.
Example: "He offered me $10,000 to build a website in a weekend, with specs that would take a team of five a month. It wasn't a job offer; it was pure Slothful Reward Bias."

Slothful Proof Bias

The cognitive error of accepting a convenient, low-effort piece of evidence as definitive proof, while ignoring the mountain of complex, contradictory, or difficult-to-obtain evidence. It’s the mental shortcut that prefers a simple, lazy answer over a complicated truth. This bias allows people to "prove" their point by pointing to a single, easily digestible factoid, a meme, or a headline, while dismissing nuanced studies or expert consensus as "too complicated."
Example: "He 'proved' vaccines were dangerous with one Facebook post about a friend's cousin, totally succumbing to Slothful Proof Bias."
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Back when I lived in upstate new york 

A meaningless, unimpressive, self-serving introduction. An indicator that the story about to be shared will be pointless and dumb.
Back when I lived in upstate new york, I also had to park on the street - on two occasions, we got enough snow, mixed with just the right plowing, that my car was lifted off the ground from so much snow being jammed underneath it.
Word of the Day on August 31, 2026
Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
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the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
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