In a ponderous manner; very slowly.
Sir Ernest Heavywether rose ponderously.
With the appearance of great weight.
A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
From ponderous + -ly.
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