This writer ploddingly accumulates detail after detail. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : to plod under the weight of a burden. ,The play just plodded along in the second act. From Dictionary.com.
It started slow, progressed ploddingly, and ended. From Wordnik.com. [PodCastle » PC029: Dead Languages] Reference
Slowly, ploddingly, his mind went over the evidence. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
Daniel Doyce, still wiping his forehead, ploddingly repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
I found the story ploddingly hard work but sometimes highly original. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
No one could refute Norton's daintily nuanced -- though ploddingly advanced -- thesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Sachems Of Satan] Reference
Lizbeth hung her head as if it were in a real yoke, then plodded more ploddingly than ever. From Wordnik.com. [GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL] Reference
He walked ploddingly on, hoping that Steve would not have gone through before he reached him. From Wordnik.com. [Behold the Stars]
Forget bounding across the forest, Shalkan moved as ploddingly as if each step was an effort. From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
Kathy English, the "public editor" of the Toronto Star, really is as ploddingly earnest as she sounded a week ago. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
There was a new word a fellow just coined at Cambridge for people who were ploddingly methodical like Alvin: scientist. From Wordnik.com. [Alvin Journeyman]
Unfortunately, the book is ploddingly written and offers no satisfying development of any of the ideas from the original article. From Wordnik.com. [Unread] Reference
And the irresponsible SF writer in me prefers to riff on blue-sky scenarios, rather than ploddingly dramatise some five- or ten-year plan. From Wordnik.com. [More Martian Ramblings] Reference
The final toll is tragically high but The News from Paraguay only occasionally rises above the ploddingly solid – an earnest if minor work. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Fiction] Reference
Choi writes ploddingly, and at too great length, about her characters in the abstract; the effect is like reading an outline rather than a novel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The ploddingly functional "transparent" prose in many contemporary works within the strange fiction genres is perhaps the present-day equivalent. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime] Reference
The FBI was ploddingly trying to nail Brown (who is now mayor of San Francisco) on bribery charges, but the high-living and nimble Brown shrugged off the G-men. From Wordnik.com. [Behind The Smile] Reference
Dully, almost ploddingly, the man turned to leave. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Dollar] Reference
The less confident ploddingly fulfil Nos. 1 and 2, and don't attempt No. 3. From Wordnik.com. [In the Ranks of the C.I.V.] Reference
I've seen it, and I have to say that it's a ploddingly slow mess of a film. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
But this year's ploddingly incompetent contestants simply aren't bad enough. From Wordnik.com. [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference
Grenville himself was ploddingly industrious and not without financial ability. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767] Reference
The details are hazy and yet ploddingly familiar to anyone who knows about family splits. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The musicians had spent all their fine frenzy by now, and played only one tune, wearily, ploddingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
And they trotted ploddingly through the dusk of Pontius Pilate to the burning cloud which was Marseilles. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Bloweth] Reference
Why bother rooting for a guy who was constantly grousing about his fate, which seemed ploddingly inescapable?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
There were three figures in the lead, a man and two boys, and they walked slowly, ploddingly, as if weary from a long march. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow's End] Reference
Instead, this is a ploddingly paced, awkwardly ambitious film that seems lifted from the middle act of a better, more buoyant franchise. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
After this particularly complimentary speech Riddell rowed ploddingly on for a little distance, Tom whistling shrilly in the stern all the way in. From Wordnik.com. [The Willoughby Captains] Reference
(popular hit though it may be), and Alejandro Lerner's ploddingly dull-witted. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Peter Hook's The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club, a great story told ploddingly. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
By comparison, this seems ploddingly slow. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Snyder: Rooftop Farm Report: Whoa, Food, Slow Down!] Reference
Alito was ploddingly patient with the Senator. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Ploetzlich viel schneller - Even more ploddingly. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Culture, Policy, Education:] Reference
It's "a sprawling, episodic and interminable 70s period drama, ploddingly comparable to Peter Bradshaw. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Science sometimes moves ploddingly, thoughtfully. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
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