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Recent Examples of sluggardly
The only comparable animals of any kind are lungfish, which also have sluggardly tendencies.
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Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sluggardly
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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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
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The film, like How to Train Your Dragon, is about a shiftless youngster (Lilo, a Hawaiian girl who has been acting out since the death of her parents) bonding with a fantasy creature (Stitch, a blue alien experiment designed as a weapon of destruction).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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This defensive breakdown was the defining sequence of the Giants’ second straight listless loss to the Chicago Cubs, a 6-1 defeat on Saturday night at Oracle Park that clinched a second straight losing homestand.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
14 June 2026
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Their team looked listless in the first half, falling to a 27-point deficit at halftime.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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Instead of placing them directly on shelves, use bins or lazy Susans to corral like items.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Dec. 2025
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Just five years ago they were slated for the rubbish pile, only Oleszko was too lazy to call someone to dispose of them.—
Jane Wooldridge,
Miami Herald,
7 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Some people with indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) lose bone tissue, developing osteoporosis or osteopenia.—
Ruth Jessen Hickman,
Health,
1 June 2026
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No, rest is for the lazy, the Caucasian adolescent, the indolent, the indulgent—until the age of thirty.—
Taiye Selasi,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Then, around 30 minutes later, Frosty became glassy-eyed and lethargic, simply staring at Salazar and not responding immediately to any action.—
Ella Moore
May 26,
Miami Herald,
26 May 2026
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The Cavs looked lethargic, the building lacked energy because the home team gave them nothing to cheer for and now this erratic, inconsistent season could come to an end Monday night.—
Esfandiar Baraheni,
New York Times,
24 May 2026
Adjective
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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
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Instead, bears enter a state called torpor (the adjective for which is torpid).—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Their first statement signing to launch the project was the €42m purchase of the lanky and languorous Argentine playmaker.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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But, for those looking for something a bit more low-key with the languorous pace of the south, there’s always Puglia.—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
18 May 2026
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“Sluggardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluggardly. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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