Adjective : a sluggish disposition. ,a sluggish liver. ,a sluggish car engine. From Dictionary.com.
Ortolo flows sluggishly into the Gulf of Roccapina. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The engines throbbed, and they moved off sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
Life went on as usual, sluggishly and dully -- but on. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
Usually the Jordan wound sluggishly between low banks. From Wordnik.com. [Men Called Him Master] Reference
He awoke sluggishly and dragged himself into awareness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of Home] Reference
But the object did not rise; it only rolled sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
The seasons pass sluggishly here, and history ripens slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
The shuttle lifted sluggishly, but there was no great difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Badge of Infamy] Reference
Left unassisted, the volunteers 'white cells responded sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [A Possible Boost For The Immune System] Reference
On the floor behind him Tawney moved sluggishly, trying to sit up. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
The stream here was wide, moving sluggishly over a bed of black sand. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
His worry over Boyd, dulled by the passing of time, stirred sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
It was in Farnsworth's back yard, bouncing a little sluggishly on the grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Bounce] Reference
When the sun was well westward they had a clumsy craft which floated sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
On examination the peroneal muscles reacted but sluggishly to faradic irritation. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Shawnee Park and along the bluff overlooking the Ohio River creeping sluggishly past. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference
Are you poor, and dragging out a dull, base life, more sluggishly than your abilities deserve?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He seemed neither ashamed of himself nor indignant at his companions, merely sluggishly amused. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
About four o'clock hundreds of government clerks streamed out sluggishly from the side streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
He crept sluggishly along in search of some sunny nook where he might snooze in his melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
He clucked to the old horse, which awoke out of its drowse with a start, and moved on sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The river narrowed and flowed sluggishly between the banks which were luxuriant with tropical growth. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
The months slipped by, and the years dragged on sluggishly, and 'Miah and Dorcas were as happy as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
The blue-black face was darker now and more leathery, as if the blood behind were running more sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
They refuse to bite at any bait; they move sluggishly, and, when caught in a net, flop languidly, and die. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Mind you, this is on prime-time, network TV; after a fast start, cable service has been growing sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [Scorching The Screen] Reference
The bodily processes were slowed down; the heart throbbed sluggishly, once every few minutes; thought ceased. From Wordnik.com. [The Penal Cluster] Reference
Yet, productivity and living standards have advanced only sluggishly-sometimes imperceptibly-ever this period. From Wordnik.com. [The Value Of College] Reference
There are vast steppes, extensive plains, through which numerous streams roll sluggishly into the great lakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
VIRTUAL REALITY GENERALLY requires wearing a cumbersome helmet and glove, and VR environments tend to move sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [Not Quite A Holodeck] Reference
She slowed him to a walk as she turned his head to the southwest, and pursued her course sluggishly across the plains. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Slowly, as though it were being turned on through a sluggishly turning rheostat, consciousness came back to The Guesser. From Wordnik.com. [But, I Don't Think] Reference
The current grew swifter, and he had to fight to keep his head above water, his tired body reacting sluggishly to commands. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Like a black cloud, you sometimes see on sultry summer days, moving sluggishly across the purely azure sky; so this remark of. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
As a result, the water flows sluggishly at the bathroom faucets, and, in case of fire, no effective fire stream can be thrown. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
From that time forth the tide of returning life in him stopped sluggishly, as if the locks were set in some ocean-tapping channel. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
But in the pale-blooded tribes the heart pulsates sluggishly and deliberately, contracting slowly as in animals that are moribund. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
And that outcome, multiplied through state-owned oil companies around the world, suggests that oil output will increase only sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [National Treasure] Reference
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