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from The Century Dictionary.

  • As slow as a snail; extremely slow.

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Examples

  • Blake is some sort of wobbly genius-in-training, a walking Ketamine hit, all spacey rhythms and oddball time signatures on one snail-slow track, then something almost completely different and even more impenetrable, next.

    Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2010 Mark Morford 2011

  • Blake is some sort of wobbly genius-in-training, a walking Ketamine hit, all spacey rhythms and oddball time signatures on one snail-slow track, then something almost completely different and even more impenetrable, next.

    Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2010 Mark Morford 2011

  • Had I paid $200 or so for the Reader, only to be confronted with buggy software, a rickety store, severely limited search ability, snail-slow PDF viewing, and an almost stone-age lack of esthetic value in design and readability, I would have been disappointed, to say the least.

    March « 2010 « Fantasy Author's Handbook 2010

  • Had I paid $200 or so for the Reader, only to be confronted with buggy software, a rickety store, severely limited search ability, snail-slow PDF viewing, and an almost stone-age lack of esthetic value in design and readability, I would have been disappointed, to say the least.

    02 « March « 2010 « Fantasy Author's Handbook 2010

  • Had I paid $200 or so for the Reader, only to be confronted with buggy software, a rickety store, severely limited search ability, snail-slow PDF viewing, and an almost stone-age lack of esthetic value in design and readability, I would have been disappointed, to say the least.

    WHEN YOU DIE, CAN I HAVE THIS? « Fantasy Author's Handbook 2010

  • Bringing actions and intent into alignment has been good, though I'm snail-slow at making changes.

    Introversion & Online Presence; also other stuff. 2010

  • Bringing actions and intent into alignment has been good, though I'm snail-slow at making changes.

    Introversion & Online Presence; also other stuff. 2010

  • In the heat of the day, there might be one old white man in a seersucker suit moving snail-slow along a sidewalk, or a group of black teenagers gesturing languidly at each other on the corner.

    Second Line by Poppy Z. Brite – Excerpt from D*U*C*K 2009

  • Compared with the noise and speed of the action in most crime dramas, the overall pace here is snail-slow.

    Murder, He Wrote 2009

  • We agree but dislike the fact that we have to wait on a snail-slow congress to do anything.

    'Daily Voting News' For September 19, 2008 2008

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