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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With the pleasant spring afternoon drawing toward evening, the Sun lazily crossed the sky, casting light all around.
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Ducks got up in front of us, and an eagle soared lazily overhead.
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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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Albeit tardily, it has been punished.
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Well, Elmo wasn't going to stand idly by and watch his head on a pike get paraded through the streets of New York, and for the USMNT's game against Australia, the little red third-person-talking Muppet picked a side.
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But that doesn't mean recipients and future recipients should sit idly, either.
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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 28 Jun. 2026.
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