Very foolish person, sloth (5)

I believe the answer is:

assai

(Other definitions for assai that I've seen before include "Musician's very" , "Very (mus.)" , "Italian greatly contributed to score" , "Palm tree" , "dispatched in attack" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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