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Definition of Sluggardly
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluggardly
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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