lumbering
/ˈlʌmb(ə)rɪŋ
/adjective
Moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way: Bob was a big, lumbering, gentle sort figurative a lumbering bureaucracy...
- Through a broken window a few feet away I watched the zombies lumbering outdoors.
- Behind me a more seriously drunk man was lumbering towards me.
- Most of the smaller characters are slaves to the plot, merely present to keep the story lumbering forward.