Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being sluggish, in any sense of that word.
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- noun The property of being
sluggish , unable or unwilling to act quickly. - noun The state of economic
decline ,inactivity ,slow orsubnormal growth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
- noun the pace of things that move relatively slowly
- noun a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This sluggishness is not sleep deprivation - it's poison.
Introducing... The Ferrett's New Web Comic! homestrange 2006
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Exhibit A on the bill of indictment of federal sluggishness is that it took four days before most people were evacuated from the Louisiana Superdome.
September 2005 2005
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Net-net, despite the current short-term sluggishness we are seeing in the procedural market, our Medical business is gaining momentum.
Cardinal Health Q1 2011 Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010
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The sluggishness could be the hard drive being damaged or something more substantial loose.
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Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth.
Budget '85 Special Meeting of The Empire Club of Canada 1985
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English commanders; a success which is sometimes tauntingly held up, in contrast with what is most unjustly termed the sluggishness of our own squadron.
Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849
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California had lost 29,200 jobs in May, due in part to manufacturing sluggishness from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
News - latimes.com 2011
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The electronic power-assisted steering feels well weighted, with a slow rack ratio but an on-centre sluggishness, which is safe and steady but not at all responsive.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The electronic power-assisted steering feels well weighted, with a slow rack ratio but an on-centre sluggishness, which is safe and steady but not at all responsive.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Monday by the "sluggishness" of the Johannesburg Labour Court in ruling on a dispute between Vodacom and CWU members.
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