Words that rhyme with sluggard

• blackguard 0
  n 1: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel] v 1: subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" [syn: ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun] 2: use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn: abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout]
• bodyguard 0
  n 1: someone who escorts and protects a prominent person [syn: bodyguard, escort] 2: a group of men who escort and protect some important person
• coastguard 0
  n 1: a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters
• cupboard 0
  n 1: a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space [syn: cupboard, closet]
• disregard 0
  n 1: lack of attention and due care [syn: disregard, neglect] 2: willful lack of care and attention [syn: disregard, neglect] v 1: refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" [syn: ignore, disregard, snub, cut] 2: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore] 3: give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors" [syn: neglect, ignore, disregard]
• dogged 0
  adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]
• fireguard 0
  n 1: a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire [syn: firebreak, fireguard] 2: a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) [syn: fire screen, fireguard]
• haggard 0
  adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] n 1: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) [syn: Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard]
• jagged 0
  adj 1: having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jagged, jaggy, scraggy] 2: having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed [syn: erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed]
• laggard 0
  adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey] n 1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke]
• legged 0
  adj 1: having legs of a specified kind or number; "four-legged animals"; "a peg-legged man" [ant: legless]
• lifeguard 0
  n 1: an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents [syn: lifeguard, lifesaver]
• niggard 0
  n 1: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl]
• ragged 0
  adj 1: being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn; "clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's"; "a ragged tramp" 2: worn out from stress or strain; "run ragged" 3: having an irregular outline; "text set with ragged right margins"; "herded the class into a ragged line"
• regard 0
  n 1: (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect" [syn: respect, regard] 2: paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" [syn: attentiveness, heed, regard, paying attention] [ant: heedlessness, inattentiveness] 3: (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare; "give him my kind regards"; "my best wishes" [syn: regard, wish, compliments] 4: a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn: gaze, regard] 5: the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard" [syn: esteem, regard, respect] [ant: disesteem] 6: a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly regard for love"; "he inspires respect" [syn: regard, respect] 7: an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him" [syn: respect, esteem, regard] [ant: disrespect] v 1: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 2: look at attentively [syn: regard, consider] 3: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" [syn: involve, affect, regard]
• rugged 0
  adj 1: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" [ant: delicate] 2: having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile" [syn: furrowed, rugged] [ant: unfurrowed] 3: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged] 4: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" [syn: rugged, tough]
• safeguard 0
  n 1: a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down" [syn: precaution, safeguard, guard] 2: a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war [syn: safe-conduct, safeguard] v 1: make safe 2: escort safely
• vanguard 0
  n 1: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn: vanguard, van] 2: any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new wave] 3: the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field; "the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England"; "the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy" [syn: vanguard, forefront, cutting edge]
• barelegged 0
  adj 1: having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach"
• kierkegaard 0
  n 1: Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855) [syn: Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard]
• asgard 0
  n 1: (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes
• unsugared 0
  adj 1: with no sugar added
• ard 0
• unguard 0

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