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UK
/slˈʌɡɪʃnəs/
]
[ US /ˈsɫəɡɪʃnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫəɡɪʃnəs/ ]
NOUN
- a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
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the pace of things that move relatively slowly
the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold
the sluggishness of the economy -
inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends
How To Use sluggishness In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- This sluggishness is not sleep deprivation - it's poison. Introducing... The Ferrett's New Web Comic!
- The slowdown will result partly from sluggishness in nondurable sectors such as apparel and textiles.
- The virus may also be noted by a lack of appetite, general sluggishness and achiness, and by the strong feeling that everything is too much effort, including speech, eye-movement and sensible thought.
- When an individual has a tendency to become overweight, there is a constitutional sluggishness which can be checked by taking citrous fruit for breakfast and later in the day as ‘medicine.’
- the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends
- the sluggishness of the economy
- Do not overexpose the athletes to the sun during their without-water warm-ups as it can increase feelings of lethargy and sluggishness, athletes can get sunburnt and there is the danger of dehydration.
- Monday by the "sluggishness" of the Johannesburg Labour Court in ruling on a dispute between Vodacom and CWU members. ANC Daily News Briefing