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Definition of Ponderously
1. Adverb. In an uninterestingly ponderous manner. "The play was staged with ponderously realistic sets"
2. Adverb. In a heavy ponderous manner. "He moves ponderously"
Definition of Ponderously
1. adv. In a ponderous manner.
Definition of Ponderously
1. Adverb. In a ponderous manner; very slowly. ¹
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Definition of Ponderously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponderously
Literary usage of Ponderously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cheerio! by Harold Melvin Hays (1919)
"Cookie was snoring ponderously with open mouth, and a stub of a cigar in his left
hand, by which he supported himself. The English officer, I don't ..."
2. Spiritual Magazine (1873)
"All Spiritualists—even those who have studied the subject most and longest —find
the spirit hypothesis "ponderously difficult," though its sufficiency, ..."
3. Assisi of Saint Francis by Robert Goff, James Kerr-Lawson (1908)
"All the persons in his drama are ponderously pious, or ponderously humorous, for
we cannot be quite sure that his comic effects, such as the figure of the ..."
4. Novels by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1906)
"Do you see how ponderously he drinks ?" What ponderously means in that context
I didn't understand; but it could hardly be a compliment. ..."
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