plodding
plo ding
- n hard monotonous routine work
- n the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
- v walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- s (of movement) slow and laborious
- Frankly, all that plodding about gets a little, well, plodding.
- Aside from the plodding threats and grievance rosters, bin Laden's statements are tangles of tautology.
- The plodding research that has gone into Amerigo may help clear its hero's name, though it does not answer the question at the head of the publisher's blurb: "What sort of man was .