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slug·gish

(slŭg′ĭsh)

adj.

1. Displaying little movement or activity; slow; inactive: a sluggish stream; sluggish growth.

2. Lacking alertness, vigor, or energy; inert or indolent.

3. Slow to perform or respond to stimulation.

[Middle English, probably from slugge, lazy person; see slug².]

slug′gish·ly adv.

slug′gish·ness n.

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Adv.

sluggishly - in a sluggish manner; "the smoke rose sluggishly"

Translations

بِكَسَل، بِبُطء

líně

trægt

träge

mollement paresseusement

lomhán

silalega

lentamente

tembel tembel

缓慢地

sluggishly

[ˈslʌgɪʃlɪ] ADV

1. (= indolently) → perezosamente

2. (= slowly) → lentamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sluggishly

[ˈslʌgɪʃli] adv → lentement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sluggishly

adv move, flow → träge; walk → schwerfällig; (Comm) → flau, lustlos

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sluggishly

[ˈslʌgɪʃlɪ] adv (move) → lentamente, pigramente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

slug¹

(slag) noun

a kind of animal like a snail.

ˈsluggish adjective

moving slowly; not active or alert. a sluggish river; I always feel rather sluggish in the mornings.

ˈsluggishly adverb

ˈsluggishness noun

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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 lip.

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The river narrowed and flowed sluggishly between the banks which were luxuriant with tropical growth.

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His mind moved sluggishly across the brief panorama of his hurried journey--the special train from Victoria to Folkestone; the destroyer which had brought him and a few other soldiers across the Channel, black with darkness, at a pace which made even the promenade deck impossible; the landing at Boulogne, a hive of industry notwithstanding the darkness; the clanking of waggons, the shrieking of locomotives, the jostling of crowds, the occasional flashing of an electric torch.

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She struggled a little with her sluggishly working mind, and slowly put her thoughts into words.

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The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

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All rushed to holding-ground, and held, while the whale broke more timbers and the Mary Turner rolled sluggishly down and back again.

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The fire burned sluggishly in the narrow little grate; the view of the wet houses and soaking gardens opposite was darkening fast; and the bell of the suburban muffin-boy tinkled in the distance drearily.

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And I assert that I watched them closely time after time, and that I have seen four, five, and (once) six of them sluggishly performing the most elabo- rately complicated operations together without either sound or gesture.

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As auxiliary to this scarcity of fuel, one of the large springs which abound in that country gushed out of the side of the ascent above, and, after creeping sluggishly along the level land, saturating the mossy covering of the rock with moisture, it swept around the base of the little cone that formed the pinnacle of the mountain, and, entering the canopy of smoke near one of the terminations of the terrace, found its way to the lake, not by dashing from rock to rock, but by the secret channels of the earth.

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Without haste the nearest air patrol swung sluggishly about and approached the stranger.

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Part of it he saw above the surface moving sluggishly, and ere that projecting part sank, he had an awareness that somehow it was different from a log awash.

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The nearest he ever got to meditation was a sort of trance-like state, a kind of suspended animation in which his mind drifted sluggishly like a log in a backwater.

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