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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
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At our test track, the buzzy little SUV needed a slothful 9.2 seconds to hit 60 mph.Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 23 Dec. 2022
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The pilfered offspring return with the raiders to their nests, then hatch and grow up to become live-in slaves, tasked with the feeding and care of their slothful masters and their masters’ brood.Brendan Borrell, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2013
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Just as Let’s Start Here tapped the Yves Tumor and Caroline Polachek regulars Justin Raisen and Patrick Wimberly to steer its lysergic pop, Bad Cameo solicits heady, shiftless synthesizer compositions to showcase different dimensions in Lil Yachty’s voice.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 July 2024
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Gill’s benevolent steadfastness is supported by his loving, tolerant wife (Shailene Woodley) but mocked by his shiftless brother (a very funny Pete Davidson), who urges him to cash in.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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By the time the prosecution presented another version of the Vasquez video, broken into fourteen hundred and sixty-five frames, on PowerPoint slides, which show Penny and Neely’s struggle even more clearly, the jurors had begun to resemble listless schoolchildren.Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Looking listless from the opening, the Sharks allowed five goals in the first period and never recovered in an unsightly 8-1 loss to the Lightning at Amalie Arena.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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The durable 1,000-piece jigsaw is made of thick stock and high-quality art paper engineered to withstand lazy days of leisure.Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
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Work Ethic And Attitude Toward Employment To label Gen-Z as lazy without understanding their work ethic would be a disservice.Vikram Joshi, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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It’s always been a period piece: Its story takes place in the just-post-Kennedy Bronx of Shanley’s childhood, where the rigid Sister Aloysius (Amy Ryan), the principal at St. Nicholas School, vehemently objects to ballpoint pens as one of many insidious gateways to a malign and indolent future.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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Bates defeated Marilyn Mosby who was never publicly criticized by Scott for her indolent leadership as Baltimore state’s attorney.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2024
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Pets with salmonella infections may be lethargic and have diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, fever and vomiting.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Earlier this month, a post on a Bay View neighborhood Facebook group showed a lethargic raccoon near Delaware Avenue.Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2024
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An exciting, eventful first half, loaded with Dutch opportunities, gave way to a torpid stretch after halftime that, until Gakpo’s goal, had tilted toward Senegal.Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
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The sequel, by contrast, is torpid, clogged with lengthy but uninteresting tête-à-têtes and generally lacking in vigor, even in the two blowout battle scenes in the final act.Kyle Smith, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
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That’s why a noirish tenor sax snakes through the suite’s middle (played with languorous sensuality by PRISM Quartet’s Timothy McAllister), set to a lyre-like harp accompaniment.Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2024
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The rhymed verse the characters speak in doesn’t at all hinder them from expressing themselves colloquially, in idioms that sound better with a languorous Southern lilt.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
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“Sluggardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluggardly. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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