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English Dictionary: sluggishly by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sluggishly
adv
  1. in a sluggish manner; "the smoke rose sluggishly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sluggish \Slug"gish\, a.
      1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a
            sluggish man.
  
      2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
  
      3. 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.         --Woodward.
  
                     And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.
                                                                              --Longfellow.
  
      4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
            [R.] [bd]So sluggish a conceit.[b8] --Milton.
  
      Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow;
               dull; drowsy; inactive. See {Inert}. -- {Slug"gish*ly},
               adv. -- {Slug"gish*ness}, n.
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