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sluggishly

[ US /ˈsɫəɡɪʃɫi/ ]
[ UK /slˈʌɡɪʃli/ ]
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  1. in a sluggish manner
    the smoke rose sluggishly

How To Use sluggishly In A Sentence

  • Vincent shrugged sluggishly before plopping back down on the leather sofa.
  • He again started sluggishly in the final round, taking bogey from the rough on No. 1 and having to save par from thick grass short of the green at No. 2. Glover, Barnes lead as U.S. Open heads to Monday finale
  • His grip sluggishly loosed and his head slowly rested on the couch.
  • the smoke rose sluggishly
  • Most households, it seems, react sluggishly to the market's shifting performance, which may help explain why consumption has held up despite the pullback in stock prices.
  • The flagellum of the smaller one at length moved slower, then sluggishly, then fell upon the sarcode, which rapidly diminished, while the bigger form expanded and became vividly active until the two bodies had actually fused into one. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
  • Faiz instantly pressed his handle, and the great noise and dust and blackness burst up, as at Mudow-wara a week before, and enveloped me where I sat, while the green-yellow sickly smoke of lyddite hung sluggishly about the wreck. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • The youths took up the chant ‘a thief is a cheat’, and Chief Nwakibie sluggishly danced along. Chidozie chukwubuike | the decoration « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • At the back of the drainboard, smack in the middle of the dishcloth, a small brown roach waved his antennae sluggishly-sick, no doubt, confusing his nights and days.
  • It spreads rapidly and can form dense mats of vegetation in still or sluggishly flowing waters; in fact it is a menace to the health of the rivers, canals, and lakes which it invades.
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