Meanings
verbsluggardize (third-person singular simple present sluggardizes, present participle sluggardizing, simple past and past participle sluggardized)
present singular third person sluggardizes · participle present sluggardizing · participle past sluggardized · past sluggardized
- archaicraretransitiveTo make lazy.
living dully sluggardized at home
c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]
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