sluggish
IPA: sɫˈʌgɪʃ
adjective
- Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
- Slow; having little motion.
- Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
- Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
- Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth.
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Examples of "sluggish" in Sentences
- Turtles are sluggish and lazy.
- The sluggishness is very localized.
- The name is translated as sluggish or lazy.
- But the League's response was dull and sluggish.
- I was wondering about the sluggishness at times.
- The storm made the ground very sluggish and slow.
- It is a state of sluggishness, inactivity, and apathy.
- It is sluggish early in the morning and late in the evening.
- Both the display and controls will be sluggish and unresponsive.
- Mussolini was fiercely disappointed with the sluggishness of Graziani.
- Consider that while retail sales remain sluggish, internet sales continue to grow.
- So Ravell went on the air and appealed for calm, while criticizing what he called a sluggish government reaction.
- The skirmishes did not appear to be linked to Thursday's country-wide demonstrations organized by the main opposition party in protest of what they call a sluggish transition to democracy.
- Kremlin critics have blamed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for what they call a sluggish and ineffective government response to the fires, but polls have so far shown no decline in his popularity.
- Hi, Gary, you mentioned I think with respect to the architectural business you used the word sluggish and I just wanted to confirm that that's just more of the general economics versus some acute factors or one-time factors that might have occurred within the quarter?
- Also disturbed by what he described as sluggish and lacklustre implementation of the procurement process, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero has given August 6, 2009 as deadline for all Secretariats, Department and Agencies (SDA) to communicate the result of evaluation of bids to him or face the full wrath of the law.
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