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Definition of Ploddingly
1. Adverb. In a plodding manner. "This writer ploddingly accumulates detail after detail"
Definition of Ploddingly
1. Adverb. In a dull, predictable manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ploddingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploddingly
Literary usage of Ploddingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1908)
"We photographed the terraces on the way, it being a fine day, and then ploddingly
trudged at a high level until we came to the south side of a deep and ..."
2. The English Journal by National Council of Teachers of English (1919)
"He sighs as he starts ploddingly to work. Another peasant joins him and then
several others, men and women, all looking like hard-handed people of the soil. ..."
3. History of the English People by John Richard Green (1903)
"... joined Grenville with his whole party, and the ministry thus became strong
and compact. 1760- 1797. Grenville himself was ploddingly industrious and not ..."
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