thud
noun
a dull sound, as of a heavy blow or fall.
thuddingly
-
a word derived from
thud.
Example Sentences
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Readers will be unsurprised to learn that the answer is thuddingly stupid.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025
It’s weird that a film so thuddingly simplistic in its two-hour-plus arc should be so utterly mystifying on a moment-to-moment basis, but that’s “Bayhem” for ya.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
It’s tempting to imagine this material realized with the maniac verve of a film like James Wan’s “Malignant,” where the ridiculous verges on camp, instead of how Salky plays it: thuddingly literal and painfully dumb.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Now you’re thinking, “Surely film-makers have long since agreed that visual metaphors this thuddingly heavy-handed have no place in modern cinema.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2019
A horse trod thuddingly near by and from that direction came a cutting tear of teeth on grass.
From The Man of the Forest by Grey, Zane
