sluggardly

Definition of sluggardlynext

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Recent Examples of sluggardly The only comparable animals of any kind are lungfish, which also have sluggardly tendencies. Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sluggardly
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
  • 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
  • The length exacerbates all the rest of the series' sins, including a lack of emotional depth, gratuitous suffering and violence, long stretches of boring, listless plotting and extraneous characters.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • Instead of the fantastical, even beautiful diaper sculptures, we were served the waste products of listless consumption.
    Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Adjective
  • And just like Alito, some members of my family have forgotten our history and support Trump or favor some of his immigration policies, dismissing new arrivals as criminals or lazy.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Today, the park operates more than 40 family-friendly water attractions including thrilling slides, casual pools and a lazy river.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • Treatment for indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) largely focuses on preventing and controlling specific symptoms and anaphylaxis.
    Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • Signs of heat stroke in dogs include heavy panting and drooling, being weak or lethargic, bright red gums and bloodshot eyes.
    Renee Anderson, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • When to Contact a Wildlife Rehabilitator Always contact a wildlife rehabilitator if the turtle appears injured, such as having a cracked shell, or seems lethargic or sick.
    Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Adorned with almost graphically violent labels showcasing alpha predators -- a shark, a grizzly, an orca, a lion and some sort of particularly angry bird of prey -- the bottles are a far cry from the placid villas and languorous ladies plastered across so many wines.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • 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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“Sluggardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluggardly. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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