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plodding

adjective C2
  1. Progressing slowly and laboriously.
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Plodding and walking.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 21 · C1
Ethel Marr was admitted by all competent judges to have the most stylish modes of hair-dressing, and Jane Andrews--plain, plodding, conscientious Jane--carried off the honors in the domestic science course.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 299 · C1
The dull driver, smoking his pipe, was plodding along toward the limits of the Faubourg Saint-Denis, where no doubt he ordinarily had his station.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 974 · C1

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