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Definition of Laggardly
1. Adjective. Resembling a laggard; slow; taking more time than is necessary; lagging behind ¹
2. Adverb. In the manner of a laggard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laggardly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laggardly
Literary usage of Laggardly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture by Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture (1899)
"The laggardly female flowers are not pollinated. Occasionally nature provides a
safeguard against this by making a double series of male flowers. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1839)
"But, at last, slowly, by dull degrees, laggardly, as laggardly as one finds out
that one is getting old, the hands of the clock did circumambulate—it was ..."
3. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"They are in virtual contact above with the liver on the right side and the spleen
on the left and move laggardly and to a slight degree with respiration. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"For several consecutive hours, perhaps, he retreats to his basket or his bed.
lie shows no disposition to bite, and he answers the call upon him laggardly. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"He shows no disposition to bite, and he I answers the call upon him laggardly.
lie is curled up, and his face is buried between his paws und j his breast. ..."
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