Thesaurus / plodding
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Thus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.I was plodding up the river, when I heard Gordon shouting two or three hundred yards behind.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRLamb had already decided he would give it to him as he came plodding his smug little way home some evening.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThere were plodding lines of people, disciplined, carrying burdens, no bigger than ants at this distance.
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLFree to explore that weird city of plodding lives, of strange unexplained sounds, of ominously hidden activity!
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLA steady plodding Englishman will build an house, while a Frenchman is laying down rules for it.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYThe Colonel is very well, and seems to enjoy plodding knee-deep through the mud in the trenches.
LETTERS OF LT.-COL. GEORGE BRENTON LAURIEGEORGE BRENTON LAURIEGradually the cold began to tell upon him, and he started to his feet, plodding up the hill, through the soft mossy yielding soil.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSHEnthusiasm, combined with earnest plodding, enabled him to improve the district considerably.
OUR CHURCHES AND CHAPELSATTICUSThen on again in plodding perseverance,—fulfilling a promise to a woman who had done her best to wreck his existence.
THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPERWORDS RELATED TO PLODDING
- apathetic
- bit-by-bit
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-going
- slow-moving
- slow-paced
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-footed
- slow-moving
- slow-paced
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-footed
- slow-going
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-moving
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
- constant
- continued
- continuing
- dedicated
- devoted
- dogged
- eager beaver
- fireball
- firm
- go-go
- grind
- hyper
- incessant
- indefatigable
- indomitable
- inexhaustible
- jumping
- patient
- perky
- persistent
- pertinacious
- plodding
- plugging
- resolute
- staunch
- steady
- strong
- tenacious
- tireless
- unceasing
- undeterred
- unfailing
- unfaltering
- unflagging
- unflinching
- unremitting
- unstinted
- unswerving
- unwavering
- unwearied
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