laggardly

[ lag-erd-lee ]

adverb

1. in the manner of a laggard.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or being a laggard:

   He behaved in a laggardly fashion.

Word History and Origins

Origin of laggardly¹

First recorded in 1825–35; laggard + -ly

Example Sentences

She tried to call upon her pride, but that came very laggardly to the relief of her discomposure.

From Project Gutenberg

I am thinking of a very wonderful thing and words come laggardly.

From Project Gutenberg

Mercury, setting laggardly in the west, is gilded anew by our informant as a lightship, or some phare off Cape Imagination.

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Related Words

• languidly
• lazily
• sluggishly