Meaning of born tired | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Chronically tired; asthenic.
   not-comparable
2. Lazy; shiftless.
   not-comparable

Examples

“God creates the human family, but the mother is the instrument of creation and the child of the tired mother will always be born tired, and there is nothing so pitiful as the child born tired.”

“To the latter reference has been made so repeatedly that it will suffice here to say that the asthenic child is “born tired".”

“Are you one of that vast army which contends that they are "born tired"? If so, you are not a normal, healthy individual.”

“But, lord! Young Har never finishes anything – too tired! 'Ang me, sir, if I don't think 'e were born tired!”

“New South Wales is quite literally regarded as a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest; that is, a paradise for uncles who have turned dishonest and for nephews who are born tired.”

“"...This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children that you should break this habit.” When Johnston, who was “born tired,” proposed to leave Illinois for Missouri, Lincoln scolded him in language that could well have applied to his peripatetic father: "such a notion is utterly foolish. What can you do in Missouri, better than here [in Illinois]?...”

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