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Definition of Sluggishly
1. Adverb. In a sluggish manner. "The smoke rose sluggishly"
Definition of Sluggishly
1. Adverb. In a sluggish manner; responding slowly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sluggishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluggishly
Literary usage of Sluggishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1885)
"8th and 14th. tice, if it were not that it acts only- very sluggishly upon fats
in the cold, while at higher temperatures it is very- irregular in its ..."
2. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"It is probably the same word as Crook, (qv.) CREEP, ». To move with a slow and
lo» -ЕП. pace, sluggishly, lazily, lurking)? ..."
3. The Diary of Ralph Thoresby... (1677-1724): Now First Published from the by Ralph Thoresby (1830)
"... and the Church in his time, by King James and the whole Synod of Dort, and
all the Reformed Churches abroad. 5. Lay sluggishly too long in the morning. ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"... the supply of food moves too sluggishly through the cutting from point to
point, and hence the new parts wither if formed, or will not form at all. ..."
5. A dictionary of the Greek and English languages: with a table of proper by Johannes Pervanoglu (1894)
"... slowness, idleness. v<o&e<5s • adv. indolently. slowly, slothfully sluggishly.
... lazily, sluggishly, supinely, nonchalantly. S, (xe(e\ the fourteenth ..."
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