Crossword clues for sluggishly
sluggishly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluggish \Slug"gish\, a.
Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
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Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.
--Woodward.And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.
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Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] ``So sluggish a conceit.''
--Milton.Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. [1913 Webster] -- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a sluggish manner; responding slowly.
WordNet
adv. in a sluggish manner; "the smoke rose sluggishly"
Usage examples of "sluggishly".
When the last of their animals was clear and stood flinching on the sand with the driving rain lashing at his flanks, Garion turned back to the sluggishly heaving wreck.
Far below in the secret places of the planet the consciousness of the Krang stirred sluggishly.
He sluggishly, without the Force, cut one of the guards down, catching the other one with a kick to the back before he could take Laree down.
Vast as that field was, it could not encompass the whole fleet, but half of the lip of the gigantic cone soon disappeared, its component vessels subsiding into a sluggishly flowing stream of allotropic iron.
The village stood on a knoll rising from swamps, through which a branch of the Stour wound its way sluggishly.
The rhythm of the waves, heaving themselves sluggishly against the beach at the foot of the town, underwent some sort of subtle change, or so van Hoek claimed.
At 80 1 tried a little back pressure: the nosewheel lifted sluggishly.
The village stood on a knoll rising from swamps, through which a branch of the Stour wound its way sluggishly.
They moved sluggishly they had been too long in these warm southern waters, and their timbers were infested with the Toredo worm.
College of Crossroads Brethren who supervised the well-being and spiritual life of the crossroads outside its double doors, especially the towerlike shrine to the Lares and the big fountain, which now flowed sluggishly amid a tumble of ethereally blue icicles, so cold was this winter.
On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from the attack of a Sperm-Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly swam through the brit, which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated from the water that escaped at the lips.
They began gradually to travel through a healthier-looking terrain, ribboned with a twisting jade channel of the same stream that had flowed so sluggishly by Everclear, and other streams and ponds as well, and brightened with flowers and the scamperings of squirrels, rabbits, fox and deer.
A few pigmies were about, moving sluggishly in the direction of the river, presumably in search of breakfast.
The black cloak tore right down the middle and two mountainous clouds sailed sluggishly toward the brushwork, submerged and finally vanished in the motionless, rigid thicket.
Her rapidly beating wings filling the air with a hum like the mother of all bumblebees, the increasingly aggrieved minidrag darted down at the sluggishly advancing predator, striking repeatedly at its back and the place where a head ought to be.