sloggish

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adjective

slow, sluggish

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivesloggish (not comparable)
  1. not comparableslow, sluggish

    I don't know why, I was just fine. Not at all sloggish.

    1995, Sanford M. Dorbin, Never enough light: new & selected poems, 1966-1994, page 117
    3 more examples

    the tiny, sweet "ladyfingers" of the Carribbean; the sloggish "water bananas" of Equatorial Africa; and the big, yellow Gros Michel, which has become the standby of American, British Isles, and most European markets.

    1951, Charles Morrow Wilson, The Tropics: World of Tomorrow, page 82

    With a gurgle and gush And a sloggish slush, I spray the logs and spatter the frogs,

    1980, Fannie Safier, Adventures in reading, →ISBN, page 248

    The slow sloggish performance manufacturing and mining and quarrying sectors, as well as the private social and community services sector.

    2002, Reserve Bank of Malawi, Financial and Economic Review, volume 34

Origin

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