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Definition of plodding in English: ploddingadjective ˈplɒdɪŋˈplɑdɪŋ 1Slow-moving and unexciting. Example sentencesExamples - Lame gags, boring characterization, and a plodding story makes for a very long 97 minutes.
- I found it plodding, uninteresting, and, with the substitution of repetition for analysis, rather less informative than might be expected.
- For adults, it will seem extremely plodding and predictable.
- In a set comprising 20-odd songs there's something for everyone though, if just a few too many plodding ballads.
- I pulled on Jonathan's arm, urging him to stop the oxen in the their slow plodding steps.
- The show itself, though, with live music and a terrible plodding half hour album chart at the beginning, had lost much of its life and vitality, which is a shame.
- And it hurts when we have this clumsy, plodding exchanges because he was my best friend, and now we can't seem to talk to each other without diffidence and discomfort.
- Unfortunately, that decision really makes this a slow, plodding film.
- The only highlights of this uneven, plodding documentary are the (far too few) moments when we do see footage from his films.
- The actors, left with little choice but to act their socks off to save face, sporadically energise the plodding script but there are many dull stretches.
- Nevertheless, for a short book it develops an amazing richness of colorful detail, so that there is never a dull moment nor a plodding page.
- And it is, say those familiar with previous inspections, a plodding, unglamorous business involving diplomacy, boring leg work, cunning and much analysis.
- The acting from the four members of the cast is adequate, but the real problem is the plodding pace of the script and the somewhat laboured dialogue.
- Two words that describe the pace and plot of this film are plodding and uninteresting.
- It was a speech that showed a self-absorption and a plodding mind of the sort that simply will not work on the campaign trail.
- At this point, the movie slows to a talkative, plodding pace and loses most of its early energy.
- Oh, no - not another one of those plodding Russian plays swamped by dreary intellectuals and miserable servants…
- And that was probably all that saved them from another embarrassingly low finish as this plodding ballad sent the entire world to sleep simultaneously.
Synonyms dull, boring, uninteresting, unexciting, uneventful, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dry, as dry as dust, monotonous, tame, dreary, lacklustre - 1.1 (of a person) thorough and hard-working but lacking in imagination or intelligence.
plodding, methodical Ralph Bellamy Example sentencesExamples - Married to a plodding farmer, who for 15 years didn't have a clue about her secret life, things must have been pretty dull for her.
- In the various stages of its existence, the fortress would have sheltered both plodding as well as derelict rulers fleeing the rage of enemies or the wrath of their own masses.
- Last week he tackled the thorny issue of pensions in front of a group of retired folk with the use of cardboard slides to illustrate his points, looking and sounding more like a plodding professor than the next president.
- Aunt Leah was a plodding woman of innocent wit and demeanor, more loveable than pathetic, less an adult than an overgrown child.
- He's a plodding, conventional square, she's a get-ahead, modern girl who doesn't need to cling to conventional wisdom.
Synonyms industrious, hard-working, assiduous
Derivatives adverb The bus stopped, and the old lady ploddingly made her way off the bus. Example sentencesExamples - As I said before he's so ploddingly dull and predictable.
- The song is ploddingly slow.
- Most popular written fiction is almost excessively literal, ploddingly so, and requires no more advanced mental capacity than your average comic does, or your sub-average comic.
- The digging is ploddingly slow, the weather hot.
Definition of plodding in US English: ploddingadjectiveˈplädiNGˈplɑdɪŋ 1Slow-moving and unexciting. Example sentencesExamples - In a set comprising 20-odd songs there's something for everyone though, if just a few too many plodding ballads.
- I pulled on Jonathan's arm, urging him to stop the oxen in the their slow plodding steps.
- The show itself, though, with live music and a terrible plodding half hour album chart at the beginning, had lost much of its life and vitality, which is a shame.
- Unfortunately, that decision really makes this a slow, plodding film.
- Two words that describe the pace and plot of this film are plodding and uninteresting.
- And it hurts when we have this clumsy, plodding exchanges because he was my best friend, and now we can't seem to talk to each other without diffidence and discomfort.
- At this point, the movie slows to a talkative, plodding pace and loses most of its early energy.
- It was a speech that showed a self-absorption and a plodding mind of the sort that simply will not work on the campaign trail.
- Nevertheless, for a short book it develops an amazing richness of colorful detail, so that there is never a dull moment nor a plodding page.
- For adults, it will seem extremely plodding and predictable.
- I found it plodding, uninteresting, and, with the substitution of repetition for analysis, rather less informative than might be expected.
- And it is, say those familiar with previous inspections, a plodding, unglamorous business involving diplomacy, boring leg work, cunning and much analysis.
- The actors, left with little choice but to act their socks off to save face, sporadically energise the plodding script but there are many dull stretches.
- Oh, no - not another one of those plodding Russian plays swamped by dreary intellectuals and miserable servants…
- The only highlights of this uneven, plodding documentary are the (far too few) moments when we do see footage from his films.
- Lame gags, boring characterization, and a plodding story makes for a very long 97 minutes.
- The acting from the four members of the cast is adequate, but the real problem is the plodding pace of the script and the somewhat laboured dialogue.
- And that was probably all that saved them from another embarrassingly low finish as this plodding ballad sent the entire world to sleep simultaneously.
Synonyms dull, boring, uninteresting, unexciting, uneventful, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dry, as dry as dust, monotonous, tame, dreary, lacklustre - 1.1 (of a person) thorough and hard-working but lacking in imagination or intelligence.
Example sentencesExamples - Aunt Leah was a plodding woman of innocent wit and demeanor, more loveable than pathetic, less an adult than an overgrown child.
- He's a plodding, conventional square, she's a get-ahead, modern girl who doesn't need to cling to conventional wisdom.
- In the various stages of its existence, the fortress would have sheltered both plodding as well as derelict rulers fleeing the rage of enemies or the wrath of their own masses.
- Married to a plodding farmer, who for 15 years didn't have a clue about her secret life, things must have been pretty dull for her.
- Last week he tackled the thorny issue of pensions in front of a group of retired folk with the use of cardboard slides to illustrate his points, looking and sounding more like a plodding professor than the next president.
Synonyms industrious, hard-working, assiduous
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