sluggardly
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- sluggardliness noun
Etymology
Origin of sluggardly
Example Sentences
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The only comparable animals of any kind are lungfish, which also have sluggardly tendencies.
From Scientific American • Feb. 2, 2022
Using his foot to spin the base of the wheel, he placed dampened hands on the sluggardly lump, and for the hundredth time Tree-ear watched the miracle.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
And overcome, perhaps, by the luscious fruit, of which they ate far too much and far too often, and growing sluggardly with sleep, the travellers soon went on to bickering and scuffling together.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
The sluggardly inertness of that people passes all belief; entreaties, objurgations, curses, even bribes could not move them.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
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