toilsome

Speech parts

1. toilsome - Adjective

2. toilsome - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.

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Examples

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Alexis de Tocqueville

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. Gilbert Parker

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. Henri Barbusse

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Jean de La Bruyère

worked their arduous way up the mining valley Source: Internet

a grueling campaign Source: Internet

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