as in sleepy
slow to move or act
a big meal always makes me feel lethargic and sleepy
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Recent Examples of lethargic
For months, experts have been concerned that public health authorities have been lethargic in their response to the burgeoning pandemic, and that public safety has taken a back seat to agricultural interests.
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Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The surprising performance included two fouls in the first seven minutes for Queen that saddled him with more turnovers (two) than points (zero) and rebounds (zero) and lethargic performances by Gillespie (zero points and two turnovers) and Miguel (three points on 1 of 6 shooting).
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025
The cat, shivering, lethargic and in shock, was taken indoors, toweled off and wrapped up in blankets.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
En route from the Detroit Free Press' downtown newsroom to my home on Detroit’s east side, past massive buildings and construction sites, the city fades to brownfields, where swaths of vacant land and lethargic structures long for new life with bated breath.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
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Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The surprising performance included two fouls in the first seven minutes for Queen that saddled him with more turnovers (two) than points (zero) and rebounds (zero) and lethargic performances by Gillespie (zero points and two turnovers) and Miguel (three points on 1 of 6 shooting).
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025
The cat, shivering, lethargic and in shock, was taken indoors, toweled off and wrapped up in blankets.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
En route from the Detroit Free Press' downtown newsroom to my home on Detroit’s east side, past massive buildings and construction sites, the city fades to brownfields, where swaths of vacant land and lethargic structures long for new life with bated breath.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lethargic
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This southern island in the country’s archipelago is a sleepy place, a welcome respite from the development, sometimes overdevelopment, going on elsewhere in the region including the country’s main island Providenciales.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The once relatively sleepy city, long overshadowed by its neighbor Como, has now woken up—and established itself as a destination unto itself.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Dune: Part Two, another fantasy of third-world power struggle, is dull but dedicated to globalism.—
Armond White,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2025
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The production, directed by Mina Morita, renders the play in solid, if slightly sluggish, fashion.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Homebuyers continued to wait for mortgage rates to drop last year and sellers, especially condo owners, waited for buyers to show up in a meaningful way during what was another sluggish year for the state’s housing market, according to a monthly update from the Colorado Association of Realtors.—
Aldo Svaldi,
The Denver Post,
21 Jan. 2025
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