adjective
Etymology: from present participle of drag (II)
1. : used in dragging, hauling, or dredging
searched the bottom of the lake with a dragging rope
2. : marked by a painfully slow, tired, or sluggish manner (as of movement or speech)
it was a strange dragging approach, half a walk and half a slide — J.P.Marquand
a soft and dragging voice — Carson McCullers
: painfully or tediously protracted : lingering
two years of dragging . ruinous war and military control — Giorgio de Santillana
: tedious
do not … prevent the play from being a dragging riddle — Marya Mannes
• drag·ging·ly adverb