leaden

That there was a way to tell the story and not have been leaden—not be a chore or an ordeal.

The Romney-Ryan Medicare proposal is stunningly unpopular—and Romney left the debate firmly lashed to its leaden weight.

The sky was covered with leaden clouds and the rain came down in torrents.

He took the letter and read it when, an hour later, the Idaho was plowing her lazy way southward through a dull and leaden sea.