as in sluggishly
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Verstappen qualified second but stalled at the start, falling to last place as his car moved sluggishly.
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The Knicks came out of halftime sluggishly, falling behind by 13 points in the third quarter.
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During warmups, while the French players lazily passed the ball between one another or popped it off the ground to gently juggle with their feet, the Norwegians, their red shirts bright against the grass, formed a tight circle and did vigorous plyometrics.
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The word authenticity, deployed lazily at a marketing conference?
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His audiences stare back at him, dully hostile.
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As a result, unlike what his name would suggest, Unique is a fairly generic loner who dully seeks vengeance.
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While Chanel, which last season shut out guests who arrived a couple of minutes late, started its show — gasp — tardily.
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Leaning on Christos Stylianides’ tasteful trumpet and Jesse Chandler’s flute, the song finds the singer not waiting idly for life to pass by.
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Meanwhile, government organizations such as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are not sitting idly by.
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At least four officers stood by during the assaults, while two others halfheartedly attempted to break them up.
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The rise of disco in the mid-1970s prompted too many soul-music greats to halfheartedly jump on the bandwagon.
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“Inanimately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inanimately. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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