Definition of sluggish
sluggishly
adverbsluggishness
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Examples of sluggish in a Sentence
The game picked up after a sluggish start.
the sluggish pace of the project is worrisome
Recent Examples of sluggish from the Web
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Its success this time has been held up in the official press as proof that a push to overhaul sluggish state companies is at last gaining momentum under Xi Jinping, China’s president.
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Peltz cited P&G's sluggish sales and profit rebound in recent years and said the board needed another outsider's perspective.
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The U.S. and many other major economies remain stuck in sluggish growth, despite bloated central-bank balance sheets and enormous debts accumulated by national governments.
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The signs were there: The man who would write beautiful songs on his guitar became sluggish and angry.
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The poll suggests that, despite the presence of chronic wasting disease, the number of hunters this year might not be as low as the sluggish sales of hunting licenses have indicated.
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Long maligned over mounting animal welfare concerns, Ringling suffered sluggish sales from an ever-fading fan base.
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The flat postglacial geography of the sluggish Chicago River and its adjacent swamps marked the narrow southwestern edge of the Great Lakes watershed, the perfect spot for a canal to connect the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River watershed.
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None of this suggests that sanctions aren’t having some impact: That recovery would probably be a bit less sluggish with fewer restrictions on its access to European and American markets.
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First Known Use of sluggish
15th century
SLUGGISH Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of sluggish for English Language Learners
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: moving slowly or lazily
SLUGGISH Defined for Kids
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: slow in movement or reaction … his sluggish brain was hardly working at all. — Dick King-Smith, Pigs Might Fly
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: markedly slow in movement, progression, or response sluggish healing
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