Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a plodding manner; drudgingly.
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- adverb In a dull, predictable manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a plodding manner
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Examples
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So too did the ploddingly centrist BBC, one of whose executives once explained eurosceptics to Rod Liddle, the editor of the Today programme, by saying: Rod, the thing you have to understand is that these people are mad.
The eurozone: it's a pyrrhic victory for the eurosceptics | Nick Cohen 2011
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The ploddingly functional "transparent" prose in many contemporary works within the strange fiction genres is perhaps the present-day equivalent.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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It's ploddingly earnest when it isn't crudely scurrilous — the assassination episode is framed with tacky flashbacks of an unstable Marilyn Monroe, and the Kennedy White House at times seems a combination illegal pharmacy/brothel for the philandering Jack.
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Everything that was magical, mysterious and half alluded to, he now ploddingly dramatised, making it seem dull and trainspotterish.
JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse | David Mitchell 2011
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Kathy English, the "public editor" of the Toronto Star, really is as ploddingly earnest as she sounded a week ago.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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The final toll is tragically high but The News from Paraguay only occasionally rises above the ploddingly solid – an earnest if minor work.
Historical Fiction 2010
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The ploddingly functional "transparent" prose in many contemporary works within the strange fiction genres is perhaps the present-day equivalent.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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The comedy is broad as a battleship and the script ploddingly formulaic throughout – if you saw Grosse Point Blank you're likely to feel profoundly disappointed with Cusack for dumbing down his former glories.
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A shouty headache of a film, this modern rehash pitches hunky Perseus (Avatar's uncharismatic hero Sam Worthington) against an array of digital beasties which he and his rag-tag band of supporters must fight in order to complete a ploddingly plotted task which steals its riffs from a wide range of myths and movies.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up: Clash of the Titans; Hierro; The Bounty Hunter 2010
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I'm not saying that the screenplay is without its flaws, but the treatment of cancer here, which includes moments of humor throughout, is more humane and generous — and true to life — than a morose, ploddingly earnest enshrinement of suffering.
Jonathan Levine Directing Anna Kendrick in I'm With Cancer « FirstShowing.net 2010
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