Crossword-Solution: SLOTH 5 letters, 254 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Sloth n. Slowness; tardiness.
Sloth n. Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness;
idleness.
Sloth n. Any one of several species of arboreal edentates
constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They
have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are
furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail
are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
Sloth v. i. To be idle.

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Word Anagrams
SLOTH anagram HOLST, HOLTS, LOSTH

We have 254 clues for the answer “SLOTH”

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Tree-dwelling animal known for its slow movement 1 answer
Laziness, as one of the seven deadly sins 1 answer
Three-toed creature of Central and South America 1 answer
A deadly sin, or an animal 1 answer
A slow-moving South American mammal 1 answer
AMERICAN tree-dwelling mammal 1 answer
Aboreal idler 1 answer
Ai or unau 1 answer
Along with the anteater, one of two animals in the order Pilosa 1 answer
Animal identified by its number of toes 1 answer
Animal that hangs upside down in trees 1 answer
Animal that might be described as two-toed 1 answer
Animal that moves an average of 13 feet per minute 1 answer
Animal that sleeps in trees 1 answer
Animal that sleeps upside down 1 answer
Animal whose name means "laziness" 1 answer
Animal working in the D.M.V. in "Zootopia" 1 answer
Animalistic sin? 1 answer
Arboreal slowpoke 1 answer
Bent to do nothing 1 answer
Big-toed animal 1 answer
Companion of pride, wrath, etc. 1 answer
Couch potato's sin 1 answer
Creepy critter? 1 answer
Creepy type that most find cute? 1 answer
Critter that sleeps upside down 1 answer
DMV animal in "Zootopia" 1 answer
DMV worker in "Zootopia" 1 answer
Deadly sin that doesn't require much effort 1 answer
Deadly sin that doesn't take any effort 1 answer
Disinclination to exertion 1 answer
Energy-efficient deadly sin? 1 answer
Epitome of laziness 1 answer
Excessive laziness 1 answer
Exertion aversion 1 answer
Faineance 1 answer
It's deemed deadly 1 answer
Its average ground speed is 6-8 feet per minute 1 answer
Laziest of the deadly sins 1 answer
Lazy nature 1 answer
Lazy one's sin 1 answer
Loafer's forte 1 answer
Loafer's sin 1 answer
Lugubrious mammal 1 answer
Mammal in a 2006 SNL short 1 answer
Mammal that can hit .17 mph, when hustling 1 answer
Mammal that's faster in water than on land (which isn't saying much) 1 answer
Mammal with a low metabolism 1 answer
Mammal; laziness 1 answer
Animal famous for hanging upside down 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLOTH (5)

But well thou comst Before thy fellows, ambitious to win From me som Plume, that thy success may show Destruction to the rest: this pause between (Unanswerd least thou boast) to let thee know; At first I thought that Libertie and Heav’n To heav’nly Soules had bin all one; but now I see that most through sloth had rather serve, Ministring Spirits, traind up in Feast and Song; Such hast thou arm’d, the Minstrelsie of Heav’n, Servilitie with freedom to contend, As both thir deeds compar’d this day shall prove.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Then thou shalt suffer in alternate years The new-reaped fields to rest, and on the plain A crust of sloth to harden; or, when stars Are changed in heaven, there sow the golden grain Where erst, luxuriant with its quivering pod, Pulse, or the slender vetch-crop, thou hast cleared, And lupin sour, whose brittle stalks arise, A hurtling forest.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1995
HOW HAS THIS PROCESS BEEN STOPPED? Anyone who wants to stop this process for a Public Domain Library of information is probably suffering from several of the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, covetousness, lust, anger, greed, envy, and sloth.
A Brief History of the Internet Michael Hart 1995

Quotes with SLOTH (3)

Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.
Ray Bradbury
Maybe God doesn't care if we get all dressed up and sit in the pew every Sunday, as Diana believes. Instead, maybe God comes to us through men like Sloth, watching over us as we make our own decisions. Maybe God has always been with me. Opening doors, leading me to opportunities, letting me choose my own path, and loving me even when I chose the wrong one. Never giving up on me. Knowing all along that I am on a journey. That I must find my own way to Him. Maybe River was righ…
Julie Cantrell Into the Free
The Prophecy:"The Chosen one possesses a gift That Lucempest needs in order to make a shift. To provide pure sacred life As a concession for his land's strife. If the human soloth seizes wrath This will be the altercation restraining Lucempest fromlaunching on his wicked path. If the Chosen One learns the way, He will prevent his land from having a great debt to pay. When Ira (wrath) vanishes from Lucempest's land Healing will ensue as a component of the great plan. If Lucemp…
CJ Quinn
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 178 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).