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snail-like
adjective as in dilatory
adjective as in unhurried
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Now began the snail-like advance for eighty-six miles up the crooked course of the Dead River.
Our progress was snail-like; each one of us struck out for himself, having lost confidence in the cunning of the other.
It was snail-like, after having become accustomed to the ten-mile-an-hour gait of the car, when it was doing its best.
The manner in which those liberated girls skipped down to the laundry was certainly not snail-like.
For at least two miles, the snail-like progress continued; most of the way through woods.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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