Verb (used without object) : to plod under the weight of a burden. ,The play just plodded along in the second act. From Dictionary.com.
If you could get to the top through time alone, with no skill, we called it "plodding", and it was regarded as A Bad Thing. From Wordnik.com. [How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony] Reference
For a book that intends to be unbeautiful, "plodding", sometimes it makes all the difference to expect that as you enter the narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Furies] Reference
I've been kind of plodding along, been down the last couple of years. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Just on it's merits as a song I still think it is really average, almost 'plodding'. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Diplomacy, Gearan informs us, should be put down as "plodding," and as having not borne fruit. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"AT&T's 3G cell network is kind of plodding," said Helminiak, a partner in Minneapolis software company Azul 7. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Now, to be fair to Snyder, this isn't necessarily a bad adaptation, just a kind of plodding, unimaginative one. From Wordnik.com. [Vue Weekly] Reference
More-plodding officers dislike "fast burners" like Clark. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: The Water Walker] Reference
AN this is disappointing, as is the movie's plodding pace. From Wordnik.com. [Caped Crusader] Reference
In stark contrast to plodding, bureaucracy-laden General Motors. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Flint: A Vigorous, Vibrant Original] Reference
Darrell stepped off the gravel and continued plodding through the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 13] Reference
Oh, come along, Mole, do. replied the Rat cheerfully, still plodding along. From Wordnik.com. ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference
Even as the consumer is moving faster, corporations are still plodding along. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Bernoff: Empowered: Managing In Real Time] Reference
A man can get what he wants if he pays the price -- persistent, plodding perseverance. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
This is a sign of sound business capacity and a plodding contriver in transactions. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
Yet Copti and Shani steer clear of the plodding linearity that can make realism so deadly. From Wordnik.com. [From Israel, A Humane And Honest Look At Life] Reference
Prokofiev's "Classical" symphony, which opened the concert, sounded plodding and not incisive. From Wordnik.com. [Music review: BSO previews the season, talks to the audience at Strathmore] Reference
Turning away from “Penelope,” I stared at the traffic plodding through the Financial District. From Wordnik.com. [Meet Cute] Reference
Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, was thought to be a plodding apparatchik for years after he took power. From Wordnik.com. [Nuke Jitters] Reference
Like the tortoise competing against the hare, they are plodding toward the finish line with big smiles. From Wordnik.com. [Five Rules For The Post-Boom] Reference
Its plan of maneuver seemed plodding and overly cautious: advance, stop, regroup, advance again, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarzkopf] Reference
He had been chancellor since 1982, and Germans seemed weary of his plodding and parochial leadership style. From Wordnik.com. ['Why Don't They Share?'] Reference
Reich combined those outsize tributes to "consciousness" and "culture" with disdain for some plodding struggles. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Solomon: No, Higher Consciousness Won't Save Us] Reference
Despite a reputation as a plodding marketer, Delta has managed to grow over the years by making shrewd acquisitions. From Wordnik.com. [A Courtly Airline Gets Tough] Reference
For a military that boasts lightening-fast, precision technology, the DoD's bureaucracy can be plodding and unwieldy. From Wordnik.com. [War Stories] Reference
The quake has exposed a massive chasm between the clumsy, plodding government and a population desperate for assistance. From Wordnik.com. [From Much Death, One Life] Reference
Dean saw the tour groups that John had predicted, scores of people plodding cheerfully behind an erect young female guide. From Wordnik.com. [Relativity] Reference
Instead this one is plodding along at a rate that won't create enough new jobs to sharply reduce the 9.5% unemployment rate. From Wordnik.com. [The 2.4% Recovery] Reference
The little horse started at a fine pace, and in a very few minutes they overtook the other traveler, plodding along on foot. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
Perhaps these are unique individuals in whom a driving entrepreneurial spirit outstripped the plodding pace of book learning. From Wordnik.com. [Some say bypassing a higher education is smarter than paying for a degree] Reference
For audiences grown accustomed to his bedazzling cinematic trickery, a plodding Godzilla or wooden King Kong just wouldn't do. From Wordnik.com. [Believe In Magic] Reference
Given Jeb's taste for executive leadership, though, some wonder why he'd want to seek membership in a plodding legislative body. From Wordnik.com. [The Jeb Factor] Reference
Instead of seeing computers as giant, plodding number-crunchers, they had to be viewed as nimble tools that could talk to each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth Of The Internet] Reference
I thought of her plodding along the road under basins of fruit or bundles of wood, and I wondered if Cyprien would ever cut his nail. From Wordnik.com. [When I Became a White Girl] Reference
I felt completely safe plodding through L. A.'s rain-soaked streets during a recent storm; there wasn't a slip from the 17-inch wheels. From Wordnik.com. [ROAD TEST: HONDA RIDGELINE RTS] Reference
"I was plodding along, writing my little books," he says, "and then suddenly this thing speared into my life and it just took me over.". From Wordnik.com. [TARGET: THE PRESIDENT] Reference
It's not clear how much higher Perot can go, or whether he can help derail Clinton's plodding march toward an Electoral College victory. From Wordnik.com. [Running Scared] Reference
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