sluggishlyadv.
/ˈslʌɡɪʃli/ In a sluggish or torpid manner; lazily, slowly.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly
slacklyc960
latelyOE
heavilyc1000
hoolya1340
sluggedlyc1450
sluggishlyc1450
tarryingly1530
loiteringly1547
tediously1557
languishingly1579
limpingly1579
lingeringly1589
unnimbly1607
longsomelyc1610
tardilya1616
a-sluga1620
sluggingly1653
languidly1655
dilatorily1700
heavy1701
lagginglyc1817
laggardly1835
slack1854
slackly1884
logily1912
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adverb] > sluggishly
slugly1436
sluggedlyc1450
sluggishlyc1450
lumpishly1583
dullya1616
the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adverb]
lateeOE
latelyOE
heavilyc1000
hoolya1340
slowlyc1384
slowa1398
sluggedlyc1450
tarryingly1530
loiteringly1547
sluggishly1565
languishingly1579
limpingly1579
lingeringly1589
tarde1598
unnimbly1607
longsomelyc1610
tardilya1616
languidly1655
heavy1701
slack1854
snailishly1889
tharfly1894
pole pole1902
weedy-slow1921
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxi Þe eselier þou shalt bere it, made redy þerto nat sluggusly [v.r. sluggedly] in herte & by use.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Somniculose, dreamingly: negligently: sluggishly.
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 52 Who, sluggishlie gapeing and stretching himself, lyeth lusking on the downe.
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 189 To do my Work sluggishly by halfs.
1784 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1842) xii. 201 To go sluggishly about a prescribed task.
1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger III. xvii. 45 Our men at first paddled sluggishly.
1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 33 Hence, the compass-needle..oscillates more sluggishly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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