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Synonyms for sluggish

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Synonyms for sluggish

characterized by reduced economic activity

lacking mental and physical alertness and activity

resistant to exertion and activity

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Synonyms for sluggish

moving slowly

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(of business) not active or brisk

slow and apathetic

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And it does not blow through the tender maiden who stays indoors with her dear mother, unlearned as yet in the works of golden Aphrodite, and who washes her soft body and anoints herself with oil and lies down in an inner room within the house, on a winter's day when the Boneless One (22) gnaws his foot in his fireless house and wretched home; for the sun shows him no pastures to make for, but goes to and fro over the land and city of dusky men (23), and shines more sluggishly upon the whole race of the Hellenes.
Rossa Ranger, who broke sluggishly, shaped well enough in third, and remains a hurdler of rich potential.
In addition, their lymphocytes responded sluggishly when exposed to the hepatitis antigen.
The game was moved to Cavan's 3G pitch and the Erne men started sluggishly with Matty Donnelly's goal leaving them 1-8 to 0-7 down at the break.
The first greyhound to land the `Posh Derby' double, he was again sluggishly away from the boxes, but while the inside quartet were jostling for pole position on the run-up, he unleashed his customary burst of early pace to head the field into the corner.
But he contends that an excess of amylin circulating in the bloodstream can lead to insulin resistance, in which cells respond only sluggishly to insulin's instructions (SN: 9/16/89, p.184).
With way too many Star Wars references jammed in to remind us of the film's 70s setting, gloom piles upon gloom before we move - somewhat sluggishly - to a thoroughly predictable unhappy ending.
After breaking sluggishly, Festival Of Light was pushed into mid-division.
In the new study, healthy, nondiabetic Pima youngsters showed significant levels of insulin resistance, a condition in which cells respond sluggishly to insulin's sugaar-uptake message (SN: 6/23/90, p.389).
"I was disappointed with him when he came back to finish second at Leopardstown this month - he jumped sluggishly and to the right, something he'd never done before.
Controversial findings from several research teams suggest that insulin resistance -- a disorder in which cells respond sluggishly to insulin -- forms the lethal core of a process that can lead to clogged arteries.
Murray had started sluggishly at 7.10pm on a raindelayed day and Fish, who won their last meeting in Miami, took the first set 6-4.
Arko of Argonne (Ill.) National Laboratory points out, such a large specific heat leads to the supposition that the electrons of highest energy in the substance (in technical terms those near the Fermi level), that is those that do the electrical conducting, are acting very sluggishly, as if they had about 200 times the mass of free electrons.
EAST BELFAST 1 SAINTFIELD UTD 1 WITH no game over the past month both teams began sluggishly and neither side could create much before the break.
Having started the season sluggishly, eighth-placed Bray are now unbeaten in their last three games.