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

Instead of being a workspace designed to meet production goals, Bureau was a display of time spent thinking, both listless and constructive, rather than a final result.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
With his team facing fourth-and-3, his deficit at 21-7 early in the third quarter and his offense teetering between flat and listless, Falcons coach Kevin Stefanski stood on the sideline, eyed his players and clapped his hands.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of listless

Adjective

Screenings in healthy adults are also more likely to catch indolent disease, meaning slow-growing or static conditions, than aggressive ones.

— Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of indolent

Adjective

The stars have grown lethargic and limp, with lesions spread across their bodies, their arms falling off or disintegrating.

— Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
The national committee has faced a host of criticism from other Democrats for its lethargic fundraising, including calls for DNC Chair Ken Martin to step down that have so far gone unheeded.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 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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