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sluggish

/ˈslʌɡɪʃ/ adjective C2
  1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive · a sluggish man
  2. Slow; having little motion.
  3. Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
  4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
  5. Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth. · Inflation has been rising despite a sluggish economy.

Comparative sluggisher · Superlative sluggishest

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Then, commencing a loud whistling noise, he rubbed them well all over their bodies for several minutes; then, undisturbed by the noisy crowd collected round the broken carriage, Ali quietly harnessed the pacified animals to the count’s chariot, took the reins in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated “dappled grays,” now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was more than two hours returning to her residence in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 499 · C1
Holmes’s face was turned towards it, and he muttered impatiently as he watched its sluggish drift.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 189 · C1
“I inquired of you if poisons acted equally, and with the same effect, on men of the North as on men of the South; and you answered me that the cold and sluggish habits of the North did not present the same aptitude as the rich and energetic temperaments of the natives of the South.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 522 · C1
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 861 · C1

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