Vocabulary Word
Word: sluggish
Definition: lazy; slow; inactive; lethargic; CF. slug: nail with no shell
Definition: lazy; slow; inactive; lethargic; CF. slug: nail with no shell
Sentences Containing 'sluggish'
He was cast in the coarsest mould; a stout but sluggish body, yet gracefully carried, with a thick sunburnt neck, dark bushy hair, and dull sleepy blue eyes, which were occasionally lit up with expression.
In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim.
At the end of this first seance I went home with six of his fearful secrets among my freightage, and found them a great help to my dreams, which had been sluggish for a while back.
Albert found in his anteroom two guns, with all the accoutrements for hunting; a lofty room on the ground floor containing all the ingenious instruments the English eminent in piscatory pursuits, since they are patient and sluggish have invented for fishing.
I lie awake while thou sleepest, I weep while thou singest, I am faint with fasting while thou art sluggish and torpid from pure repletion.
Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat.
And now, as we eighteen men with our thirty-six arms, and one hundred and eighty thumbs and fingers, slowly toiled hour after hour upon that inert, sluggish corpse in the sea; and it seemed hardly to budge at all, except at long intervals; good evidence was hereby furnished of the enormousness of the mass we moved.
More Vocab Words
::: communal - held in common; public; of a group of people; of a commune::: dinghy - small boat (often ship's boat)
::: sensuous - giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin
::: adhere - stick fast; be a devotd follower; N. adhesion: adhering; devotion; loyality
::: expeditious - done with speed; quick; N. expedition
::: disclaim - disown; renounce claim to; deny; CF. disclaimer
::: bedraggle - wet thoroughly; ADJ. bedraggled: draggled
::: behemoth - huge creature; something of monstrous size or power
::: nausea - feeling of sickness and desire to vomit; disgust; CF. seasickness
::: foster - rear; bring up (for a certain period only); encourage; promote the development of (feelings or ideas); Ex. help foster friendly relations; ADJ: giving parental care although not related by blood; Ex. foster parents
