leaden

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Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Sweeney is good, even when the leaden dialogue does her a disservice.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

All this after Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to field under a leaden sky.

From BBC • May 22, 2025

I’d follow a recipe to the letter and still end up squinting at the oven door, trying to gauge whether I’d accidentally created something leaden or gummy or wrong.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025

Her lungs burned and her legs were leaden, but she kept running, kept her position in the middle of the pack of Champions.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas