sluggishness
IPA: sɫˈʌgɪʃnʌs
noun
- The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
- The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
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Examples of "sluggishness" in Sentences
- The sluggishness is very localized.
- I was wondering about the sluggishness at times.
- That may help overcome this mental sluggishness.
- It is a state of sluggishness, inactivity, and apathy.
- This sluggishness is not sleep deprivation - it's poison.
- Mussolini was fiercely disappointed with the sluggishness of Graziani.
- The sluggishness could be the hard drive being damaged or something more substantial loose.
- Monday by the "sluggishness" of the Johannesburg Labour Court in ruling on a dispute between Vodacom and CWU members.
- California had lost 29,200 jobs in May, due in part to manufacturing sluggishness from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
- Net-net, despite the current short-term sluggishness we are seeing in the procedural market, our Medical business is gaining momentum.
- Exhibit A on the bill of indictment of federal sluggishness is that it took four days before most people were evacuated from the Louisiana Superdome.
- English commanders; a success which is sometimes tauntingly held up, in contrast with what is most unjustly termed the sluggishness of our own squadron.
- The electronic power-assisted steering feels well weighted, with a slow rack ratio but an on-centre sluggishness, which is safe and steady but not at all responsive.
- Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth.
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