Crossword-Solution: PLODDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plodding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Plod |
| Plodding | a. | Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PLODDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | 1 answer |
| Walking laboriously | 1 answer |
| Not too quick | 2 answers |
| Moving along slowly | 2 answers |
| autodidact | 13 answers |
| unwearied | 19 answers |
| unstoppable | 19 answers |
| pishposh | 20 answers |
| stifling | 28 answers |
| banausic | 31 answers |
| Strenuous. | 32 answers |
| Monotonous | 39 answers |
| stodgy | 46 answers |
| Industrious | 51 answers |
| bland | 56 answers |
| Pedestrian | 59 answers |
| Diligent. | 63 answers |
| Non-sense | 135 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PLODDING (5)
Then said the Tortoise: “Plodding wins the race.” The Old Man and Death An old labourer, bent double with age and toil, was gathering sticks in a forest.
Velvet garments sombre but rich, stiffly plaited ruffs and bands, embroidered gloves, venerable beards, the mien and countenance of authority, made it easy to distinguish the gentleman of worship, at that period, from the tradesman, with his plodding air, or the laborer, in his leathern jerkin, stealing awe-stricken into the house which he had perhaps helped to build.
Late in the afternoon the Englishman was still plodding wearily along, forced to stop often for rest when he heard the sound of the galloping feet of a horse behind him.
All his wonderful successes, that looked like conjuring, had been gained by plodding logic, by clear and commonplace French thought.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race.
Quotes with PLODDING (3)
O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless — of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light — of the objects mean — of the struggle ever renew’d; Of the poor results of all — of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me; Of the empty and useless years of the rest — with the rest me intertwined; The question…
There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics…
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1989–2011).