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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
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Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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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The sort of listless displays that make supporters groan before halftime.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
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Just a few hours before his lineup looked listless and his management betrayed a lack of urgency, DeRosa also fondly regaled the media with an account of how late his team stayed in the clubhouse drinking and celebrating their win the night before.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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For decades, road-trippers zoomed right past Wimberley, Texas—with its scenic vistas, untamed terrain, lazy tubing rivers, blooming wildflower fields, and tiny but tight-knit community.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2026
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Float down a natural lazy river.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Every 4:3 shot is framed to maximize the social verticality of the club, and every sequence is edited to evoke the indolent energy of a hot car on a hot summer’s day.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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There are two types: Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which can be aggressive or indolent, according to the Cleveland Clinic.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The investigation began after a 4-month-old was taken to UPMC Washington after becoming unusually lethargic.—
Shelley Bortz,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Even with dramatically better affordability, rebounds from the Great Recession’s troubles were lethargic.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The stock really has not done much of anything in the last five years, the stock following a similar sluggard pattern of the company’s revenue line.—
MoneyShow,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2021
Adjective
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Free money was great for stock-market investors, but Main Street’s recovery was torpid.—
Roger Lowenstein,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2026
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That obviously transformed what, like a previous probe by Cleaning Lady producers Warner Bros TV, had been a rather torpid investigation into something much more urgent.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Sluggardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluggardly. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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