sluggish
[sluhg-ish]
adjective
indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
not acting or working with full vigor, as bodily organs: a sluggish liver.
slow to act or respond: a sluggish car engine.
moving slowly, or having little motion, as a stream.
slow, as motion.
slack, as trade, business, or sales.
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Related Words for sluggishly
lazily, languidly, densely, thickly, massively, blandly, calmly, comfortably, deliberately, easily, gradually, slowly, tardily, composedly, dilatorily, indolently, laggardly, lethargically, listlessly, torpidlyExamples from the Web for sluggishly
Historical Examples of sluggishly
Crane watched Lauzanne go lazily, sluggishly down to the post for his race.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
It was then, for much of its distance, rather a dismal stream, sluggishly winding through marshes lined with alders.
In either case, they explain how it is that we have a world moving so sluggishly.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, CompleteGeorge Meredith
When removed in a dry test tube, they began to move about sluggishly.
PlagueThomas Wright Jackson
The men came to sluggishly, their reactions pathetic and confused.
DeepfreezeRobert Donald Locke
sluggish
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