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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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The Warriors concluded a six-game homestand with another listless effort.Marcus Thompson II, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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Both are unemployed with little opportunity in sight, pitted against each other in a constantly bickering home, and listless about it all.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Erik Kain Another lazy January Sunday is spread out before us.Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Pitt made a lazy post entry pass early in the second half of Duke’s eventual 76-47 blowout win Tuesday.Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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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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There were lethargic possessions that led to poor shots in the second half against Utah State.Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
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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.Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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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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Ghia Le Spritz Variety 12-Pack $145 Ghia A wanderlust-inducing coffee table book Il Dolce Far Niente, or the sweetness of doing nothing, is effortlessly captured in this mesmerizing photo book cataloging a languorous Italian summer by Lucy Laucht.Sophie Dodd, Bon Appétit, 11 Dec. 2024
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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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“Sluggardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sluggardly. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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