Laziness vs Sleuth - What's the difference?
laziness | sleuth |
(obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.
(archaic) A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.
A detective.
* 1908 , (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville
(transitive) To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.
* 1922 , , The Secret Adversary
(obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
* 1961 , , A Passport Secretly Green , p.89
* 1995 , , The Girl Sleuth , p.13
* 2007 , , The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , p.200
As nouns the difference between laziness and sleuth
is that laziness is the quality of being lazy while sleuth is (obsolete) an animal’s trail or track or sleuth can be (obsolete|uncountable) slowness; laziness, sloth.As a verb sleuth is
(transitive) to act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.sleuth
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (Norwegian slo).Noun
(en noun)- Do ye want me to become a sleuth , or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
Synonyms
* (detective) detectiveVerb
(en verb)- We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!
Synonyms
* shadowEtymology 2
From (etyl) , corresponding to (slow) + (-th).Noun
(en noun)- As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears , I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…
- If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.
- From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk.