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plodding::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | leaden |
Examples of plodding
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Things got only worse with a plodding account of the Quartet in A Major, K. 464.
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Wright brought along his daughter to observe as he tended to the plodding giant.
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Viruet as the lithe fighter danced around his plodding opponent and taunted him.
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The first jogger appeared and began plodding counter-clockwise around the track.
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Orphaned and pregnant at 17, she married her kind but plodding high school beau.
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To my dismay, my musical growth seemed just as plodding as it had in junior high.
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Sometimes, after years of quiet, plodding performance, everything comes together.
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One friend is nearing 30 and desperatly plodding on with her accountancy exams.
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But the difficulties are only exacerbated by Thomas Grimm's plodding direction.
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- Drudgery: hard monotonous routine work
- Leaden: (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"
- The act of walking with a slow heavy gait; "I could recognize his plod anywhere"
- (ploddingly) in a plodding manner; "this writer ploddingly accumulates detail after detail"
- (plod) slog: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
- (plodder) trudger: someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner
- (plodder) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
- (plodder) someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
- Plod or P.C.Plod is a British slang term used to refer to a police officer, particularly one slow-witted or dull. A more recent variant is the plod, meaning the police force in general. The term originates from the character Mr. Plod, a police officer in the Noddy stories written by Enid Blyton .
