Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of sluggy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Sluggish.

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  • adjective obsolete sluggish

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Examples

  • Get ready for another sloggy summer of second guessing, Schadenfreude and I-told-you-sos, even if they didn't tell you so.

    This Is Dallas's Moment, Not Cleveland's Jason Gay 2011

  • Get ready for another sloggy summer of second guessing, Schadenfreude and I-told-you-sos, even if they didn't tell you so.

    This Is Dallas's Moment, Not Cleveland's Jason Gay 2011

  • "You used to be able to take refuge in sloggy old large-cap stocks, but you can't do that anymore," said Mr. Smith, whose firm has been favoring bonds and gold over stocks.

    Stocks Fall as Thirst for Risk Wanes Peter A. McKay 2010

  • Beware delay, which only turns momentum into sloggy mess,

    Rick Horowitz: The Gang of Six: An Epic of Futility 2009

  • I've got this sloggy bit here and I'm convinced, CONVINCED I TELL YOU, that if I can just bloody well get through it that the rest of the book will just fall into place and I'll charge through the writing of it.

    like pulling teeth... slovobooks 2006

  • But now I think (I hope and pray) I've gotten through the sloggy bit and can charge on.

    like pulling teeth... slovobooks 2006

  • And the aggravating bit right now is that if I'm right and once the sloggy part is past, it'll all come tumbling out, that I could potentially finish the damned book in about 3 days, because I know what happens and I know who it happens to and I'm totally capable of a 3-day, 30K stint.

    like pulling teeth... slovobooks 2006

  • Yes, it was sloggy and boring in many parts, but the exobiology possibilities Anderson raises are extraordinary.

    Review - Fire Time By Poul Anderson 2005

  • As if the book weren't sloggy enough to read, now you can catch the movie -- Part I, anyway.

    Crooks and Liars karoli 2011

  • Things were chippy on the sloggy pitch from the start, but the fouls didn't cost either team until Colorado's Joseph Nane earned a yellow card for taking down Sapong in the 28th minute.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Dave Skretta 2011

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