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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 Moment is a comedy with almost no effective jokes, a listless sense of pacing, and cinematography that is stylized but really not that stylish.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
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Children have become listless and suffered blotchy rashes, coughing and coughing spasms, dehydration and secondary infections including pneumonias.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Kids will love it for the on-site water park with a lazy river, multiple beachfront pools, and dedicated clubs for kids and teens.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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The old way to make it was often considered lazy.—
William Jones,
Ascend Agency,
27 Feb. 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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Pets with Salmonella infections may appear lethargic and have diarrhea (which may be bloody), fever, and vomiting.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
25 Feb. 2026
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Pets infected with salmonella can become lethargic and have diarrhea, vomiting, or decreased appetite.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 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 2 Mar. 2026.
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