Definition of Sluggardly

1. Adjective. Like a sluggard. ¹

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Definition of Sluggardly

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluggardly

sluffed
sluffing
sluffs
slug
slug-a-bed
slug away
slug line
slugabed
slugabeds
slugfest
slugfests
sluggard
sluggardize
sluggardized
sluggardizing
sluggardly (current term)
sluggardness
sluggardnesses
sluggards
sluggardy
slugged
slugger
sluggers
slugginess
slugging
slugging average
slugging percentage
slugging percentages
sluggish
sluggish layer

Literary usage of Sluggardly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... people's misfortunes; but could not conceal his painful astonishment on this new occasion, — astonishment at unjust fortune, or at his own sluggardly ..."

2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... could not conceal his painful astonishment on this new occasion,—astonishment at unjust fortune, or at his own sluggardly cunc- tations, is not said. ..."

3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... people's misfortunes; but could not conceal his painful astonishment on this new occasion,—astonishment at unjust fortune, or at his own sluggardly ..."

4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... people's misfortunes; but could not conceal his painful astonishment on this new occasion, — astonishment at unjust fortune, or at his own sluggardly ..."

5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... was the keening of the dog who had been—so said the wiseacres—bewitched into unfaithfulness and a sluggardly disloyalty to his trust. ..."

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