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/pˈɒndəɹəsli/
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ADVERB
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in an uninterestingly ponderous manner
the play was staged with ponderously realistic sets -
in a heavy ponderous manner
he moves ponderously
How To Use ponderously In A Sentence
- Given in his oscillations of mood to a lugubrious woebegoneness ” "He could be just the saddest-looking thing," remembers Roger Wilkins, one of his administration deputies ” Johnson while president brooded ponderously over how he was discounted by the intellectual left as a blustering boor. The Big Guy
- Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
- He stood aside and the great vehicle moved ponderously out of the garage.
- It is constructed well enough but moves ponderously and colorlessly to its conclusion.
- The unperturbed swans, ponderously wallowing in the shallows.
- the play was staged with ponderously realistic sets
- As the galaxy ponderously precessed through the universe the searoom and nearby portions of the artifact became populated by a whole crop of little Candomblean assassins. Codgerspace
- Pears … pallid corpselike mounds with no flavor. (shudder) And then in some ponderously jiggling, translucent green or orange blob reminiscent of a bad scifi B movie. Weird Foods « Colleen Anderson
- Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot, he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine's cabin.
- The belly straightened in the lines, the sheave wheels squealed, and the timber grating slid ponderously down the bank into the river. The Seventh Scroll