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adjective
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
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"Heartland" isn't committed to laborious diagnostics.
Though he is unable to laugh at his own absurdity, he piques himself on his humor and is given to laborious puns: "May 25.
He dedicates himself to laborious cultivation; his is a kind of fieldcraft and makes him more the hunter-farmer than the painter of pleasing projects.
Much of the station business consists of Hugo being chased through milling crowds, to laborious slapstick effect, by the vengeful inspector.
In an alternate reality dominated by radical, powerful women known as the Silentists, the hero is subjected to laborious behavioral regimens including a regular language fast, the elaborate Thompson Food Scheme, and frequent swims in the learning pond.
We slightly wince, on behalf of those more tightly bound to laborious necessity, when we read that "to maintain one's self on this earth is not hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely", and that "by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living".
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"...as a successful marriage increasingly becomes the relationship equivalent of a luxury yacht - hard to get, laborious to maintain but a better vessel to be on when there are storms at sea - its status is unlikely to drop.
A heavy pressure, an unexpected weight, making it hard to breathe; laborious, must work to fill my lungs against the pressure pushing down on my chest.
This method is known to be laborious and sometimes prone to human error.
Development of AFLP-derived STS markers tend to be laborious and time-consuming due to the lower conversion efficiency.
Books are small, easy to conceal and laborious to tag.
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