laggard
noun
a person or thing that lags; lingerer; loiterer.
laggardness
-
a word derived from
laggard.
Example Sentences
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At midday Fourie, who had got somewhat far ahead, was wondering at their laggardness.
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
The wrench, the agony, the process of setting the nature under its new conditions, took place in due order, but with bitter laggardness.
From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
