SLUGGARDLY Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

sluggardly

adjective

Definition of sluggardly

as in slothful

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Adjective

Holes left lying around for even the most slothful of AI are just begging for an easy AI escape.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
That they would be regarded as slothful morons who aren't worth the price of a ticket of admission.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Feb. 2026

Definition of slothful

Adjective

Why didn’t Tania just get one of her fellow Council wokesters to hire her shiftless, entitled kin?

— Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
After the volunteers slink back to Paddy’s, the most shiftless person on campus will once again be Principal Coleman (Janelle James), whose ineptitude and vanity don’t prevent her from advocating for the students from time to time.

— Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025

Definition of shiftless

Adjective

Berterame started up front along with Luis Suarez, but the duo were unable to find the back of the net in a listless first half that remained scoreless as the teams headed to intermission.

— Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2026
The Chiefs’ running game was so listless that defenses ignored fake handoffs and instead retreated to defend the pass, knowing the consequences of guessing wrong weren’t all that punishing anyway.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of listless

Adjective

The resort has its own waterpark with a freeform swimming pool, baby pool, two-story slide, and lazy river.

— Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
The other irony is that many of the characters on these very shows would hate this kind of lazy legacy thinking and would balk at it.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of lazy

Adjective

Possibly a deepening and widening of populist politics, as both the far right and the far left win over more of the allegedly indolent youth.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
Every journey with indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) is unique, but my journey with ISM has been especially unique.

— Shannon Dingey, Health, 1 July 2026

Definition of indolent

Adjective

No team wants to peak on the first Saturday, but our league loves a narrative and what happens right now sets a tone; Manchester United’s is discordant, flat, lethargic.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Female mice dosed with QACs lost interest in food, became lethargic and short of breath, and began to lose muscle control during late pregnancy.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of lethargic

Adjective

Instead, we’re treated to a series of agonizingly torpid scenes in which Nita and her co-workers are incepted by the power of Adam’s fiction, which comes to assume the force of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
Free money was great for stock-market investors, but Main Street’s recovery was torpid.

— Roger Lowenstein, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026

Definition of torpid

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