Sloth vs Argue - What's the difference?
sloth | argue |
(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
* Milton
* Franklin
(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
(obsolete) To prove.
To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.
* 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
To have an argument, a quarrel.
To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
As verbs the difference between sloth and argue
is that sloth is (obsolete|intransitive) to be idle while argue is .As a noun sloth
is (uncountable) laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.sloth
English
(wikipedia sloth)Alternative forms
* sloath, slowth (obsolete)Noun
- [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth .
- Sloth , like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.
Usage notes
Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins.Derived terms
* forsloth * Australian sloth * native sloth * sloth animalcule * sloth bear * slothful * sloth monkeyHyponyms
* (animal) two-toed slothExternal links
* *Anagrams
* English calquesargue
English
Verb
(argu)- To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
- He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
- He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
- The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.
- He argued his point.
- He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.