ploddinglyadv.
/ˈplɒdɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈplɑdɪŋli/ In a plodding manner; laboriously.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adverb] > laboriously > and steadily or dully
ploddingly1592
plodderlya1616
drudgingly1678
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D3 v For his hyre any handi craft-man,..will ploddingly do his day-labor.
1794 G. Colman Mountaineers i. ii. 8 [Treading] ploddingly by the blue or paly lamp in painful rumination.
1880 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People IV. ix. i. 223 Grenville was ploddingly industrious.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover viii. 99 She walked ploddingly, picking a few primroses.
1993 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Aug. 42/2 In Northern forests..the decay of organic matter is ploddingly slow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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