sluggardly

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adjective

Like a sluggard.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivesluggardly (comparative more sluggardly, superlative most sluggardly)

comparative more sluggardly · superlative most sluggardly

  1. Like a sluggard.

Origin

  1. Englishsluggard
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishsluggardly

From sluggard + -ly.

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Chicago

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