Sentence example with the word 'sluggishness'

sluggishness

hebetude, idleness, indolence, laggardness, languidness, languor, lassitude, laze, laziness, lethargy, lifelessness, phlegm, pococurantism, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, stagnation, torpor

Definition n. a state of comatose torpor

Last update: August 24, 2015


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The peoples, fr rmc-ly so apathetic, were now the centre of resistance, and their efforts failed owing to the timidity or sluggishness of governments and the incompetence of some of their military leaders.   [Please select]

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"The squire would have the worst of the bargain," said his father, with a good-natured hit at Tom's sluggishness.   [Please select]

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The name, _sloth_, is derived from the sluggishness of their movements, amounting almost to complete inactivity.   [Please select]

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His pursuit of Hood indicated a sluggishness that satisfied me that he would never do to conduct one of your campaigns.   [Please select]

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The engine was working well, yet there was a sense of heaviness, of sluggishness that was unaccountable.   [Please select]

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_State of being without feeling_; lack of interest; mental indifference; sluggishness.   [Please select]

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He possessed what some would call more than his share of readiness in action and sagacity in counsel, though his ordinary reticence and sluggishness of manner concealed those qualities to some extent.   [Please select]

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