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adjective

Sluggish adj.

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.

Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. "Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself." "And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect."

Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. (R.) "So sluggish a conceit."

Synonyms: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... intelligence, the greater would be the dissatisfaction with their situation—just as we see that the dissemination of education among the English agricultural laborers (by whom, of all classes in Christendom, independence is least to be hoped for), has lately aroused these sluggish beings to strikes and a struggle for a change in ...

— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

... alarmed than ever. For he was not singing, and his voice was for wont never wanting in that stormy and uncouth unison of sluggish men's voices, women's eager earnest shrilling. It was as if he had been absent, and so strong the illusion that she leaned to the side a little to touch him and assure herself ...

— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro

... entered Balliol College, Oxford, and came under the influence of Jowett, afterwards famous as Master of Balliol and translator of Plato. Though he matured early, Green was not a brilliant student. On the contrary, he appeared to be indolent and sluggish. "No man," wrote one of his fellow-students in 1862, "is driven with greater difficulty to work not to his taste.... He wrote some of the best college essays: he never sent them in on the right day, and might generally be seen on the Monday pondering over essays which every one else had sent in ...

— An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times • Thomas Hill Green

... things looked bad for the League. How were girls who raced at machines all day, who had neither money nor the voice of the press, to rouse this sluggish, corrupt city to the menace of sending to the legislature men like E.J. Troy, pledged body and soul to the manufacturers? How could they waken the public to woman's bitter necessity for shorter hours? ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... gigantic club mosses, on the opener slopes, and of great reeds clustering by the sides of quiet lakes and dark rolling rivers. There is deep gloom in the recesses of the thicker woods, and low thick mists creep along the dank marsh or sluggish stream. But there is a general lightening of the sky over head; as the day declines, a redder flush than had hitherto lighted up the prospect falls athwart fern covered bank and long withdrawing glade. And while the fourth evening has fallen on the prophet, he becomes sensible, as it wears ...

— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

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