What's the difference between sleuth and slothfulness?

Sleuth


Definition:

  • (n.) The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was the result of more than a year of dogged cyber sleuthing and old-fashioned detective work, and news of the arrest broke the following day, 2 October 2013.
  • (2) The man who found the deleted scenes is movie sleuth and champion of lost causes, Darren Gross, who works in MGM's technical services department (which archives, preserves, restores and remasters the studio's movies).
  • (3) A Slight Trick of the Mind, adapted from the novel by Mitch Cullin, is set in 1947 and finds the sleuth living in retirement but still haunted by an unsolved case from half a century before.
  • (4) Becoming a detective has not got easier but perhaps a little less complicated as for the first time aspiring sleuths can apply directly for the role of detective constable without having to work as beat officers in uniform first.
  • (5) While we concede that sleuthing is not the realm of a surgeon, we believe that there is a clear need for better communication among all concerned with shooting injuries.
  • (6) Since Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin (arguably the first detective), sleuths have solved crimes by putting themselves in the position of the criminal, by becoming what Poe called a “double Dupin”.
  • (7) Yet you don't have to be a sleuth with knowledge of the dark arts of international espionage to be able to use Google.
  • (8) Now sleuthing from a crime novelist has uncovered a new possibility: arsenic poisoning.
  • (9) At the end of Sunday night's second series finale, Benedict Cumberbatch's sleuth seemed to plunge to a sticky end after a struggle with his nemesis Moriarty.
  • (10) Benedict Cumberbatch’s modern sleuth drew 12.7 million on New Year’s Day, making it the most-watched drama of 2014 to date and on course to beat regular bankers such as soaps EastEnders and Coronation Street and award-winning period drama Downton Abbey.
  • (11) Sky Arts snapped up Spain's Downton-esque period piece Grand Hotel, Italian sleuth-fest Romanzo Criminale and Israel's Hatufim, which was the inspiration for US smash Homeland.
  • (12) The real lives of the real protagonists are starting to turn into an aural video game for amateur sleuths.
  • (13) Ritchie is hot property in Hollywood after directing two Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ingenious sleuth.
  • (14) There are more and more people piling on to the internet and the number of entities pumping out material keeps growing,” says Mikkelson, who turns out to be a wry, soft-spoken sleuth.
  • (15) That would make for a pretty dull crime plot, though, so naturally she is framed for a murder (committed via baked goods) and turns amateur sleuth to clear her name.
  • (16) GSK was not mentioned during proceedings that shed rare light on the operation of corporate sleuths in the world's second largest economy, but the firm is at the centre of a complex web of allegations.
  • (17) Internet sleuths quickly investigated the matter: Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) .
  • (18) Sherlock will return to BBC1 on New Year's Day when the mystery will finally be resolved how the sleuth survived that plunge to his apparent certain death.
  • (19) But, for all the hype about Cumberbatch switching from being the sleuth of Baker Street to the conscience of Elsinore , it would be absurd to see this as a piece of dubious celebrity casting.
  • (20) Looking at internal data over the last 10 years, the society identified five main users of libraries: "career builders", who use their libraries' resources to write CVs and practise interviews in meeting rooms; "health detectives", who track down information about particular conditions; "little learners", five- to 10-year-olds who love reading; "friend finders", who use libraries to meet people in their local communities; and "research sleuths", who track down information about their family or community histories.

Slothfulness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the retinal organization differs from that of the closely related three-toed sloth, the presumed function of retinal specializations in both species is to guide limb movements by permitting visualization of the branch along which the animal is climbing.
  • (2) Whenever anyone ascribes some inherent characteristic – of sloth or unwillingness – to an entire race, even if it is your own, you should smell a rat.
  • (3) The low functional residual capacity lung density in the sloth was attributable to unusually large alveoli.
  • (4) Over the course of this series, themes of unemployment, poor grooming and sloth emerge, all of which are qualities found in our first loser, Kris.
  • (5) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
  • (6) Sloths are very responsive to epinephrine and norepinephrine; i.v.
  • (7) Updated at 9.20pm BST 9.01pm BST A second Republican Senate candidate has distanced himself from Mitt Romney 's discourse on the miserable sloth and entitled arrogance of 47% of Americans: Sen. Scott Brown, facing a tough fight in left-leaning Massachusetts, emails The Hill to say Romney's Randian world view of producers-versus-parasites is not his: That’s not the way I view the world.
  • (8) The working class is redivided into the hard-working taxpayer and the slothful undeserving poor, with the former subsumed into the "people", the latter into its other.
  • (9) Tilting sloths anesthetized with chloralose from erect to supine or supine to erect produced little or no effect on heart rate.
  • (10) Sloth fat cells showed a very low glucose oxidation to 14CO2 and incorporation into total lipids.
  • (11) Acute, fatal infections with this parasite are also recorded in a number of captive "coatimundis", Nasua narica (Carnivora: Procyonidae) and a sloth, Bradypus tridactylus (Edentata).
  • (12) The cellular composition and relative frequency of the occurrence of pancreatic endocrine cells were studied immunohistochemically in a primitive eutherian and arboreal folivore, the three-toed sloth, since previous histochemical and ultrastructural studies on the endocrine pancreas of the sloth have detected only a single islet cell type, the A cell.
  • (13) The intestinal of the 3-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, was studied macroscopically, with light microscope and with histochemical methods for mucosubstances.
  • (14) 8.50pm BST 48 min: Dortmund have started with the same zip that they started the first half - and Bayern with the same sloth.
  • (15) Leishmania (Viannia) shawi Lainson, Braga, de Souza, Póvoa, Ishikawa & Silveira, 1989, was originally recorded from monkeys (Cebus apella and Chiropotes satanas), sloths (Choloepus didactylus and Bradypus tridactylus) and coatis (Nasua nasua) and the sandfly, Lutzomyia whitmani.
  • (16) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
  • (17) Like a stern housekeeper, he has roamed from floor to floor in government buildings, casting disapproving glances at the litter, the sloth and the lack of discipline.
  • (18) Since it has been reported that sloths have a very low rate on thyroxine secretion, the results are discussed in relation to data in the literature on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in hypothyroid animals.
  • (19) A s a fashion accessory, the beard occupies the sweet spot where sloth meets affectation – that’s why I’ve got one – although you couldn’t really call facial hair fashionable any more.
  • (20) He moved with the bounce of a sloth, served meekly and lacked any of the vim that had carried him this far.

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