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UK
/slˈəʊnəs/
]
[ US /ˈsɫoʊnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫoʊnəs/ ]
NOUN
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
How To Use slowness In A Sentence
- Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.
- Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing.
- He looks the age and although his character still appears fit, his mannerisms have just a slight suggestion of slowness to them.
- I thought back to the comment you made to her about "stupidity and slowness."
- (That slowness to wake up and smell -- mixing metaphors here -- which way the wind is blowing has, of course, redounded to the good of actors demanding $20 million salaries.) Seeing Stars in Hollywood and New York
- Unicef was just one of the international agencies in Durban promising to rectify the slowness of its response.
- The resulting slowness of cognition is a cardinal element of the pattern of impairment.
- The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity, momentarily wobbled off-key, then recovered.
- The novel is built around Lennie, the character whose 'slowness' has most filtered into the American popular consciousness.
- But, as with our slowness to believe we are sinners, so we are slow to believe sin can really be redeemed.
