taxing
wearingly burdensome: the day-to-day, taxing duties of a supervisor.
Origin of taxing
1Other words from taxing
- tax·ing·ly, adverb
- un·tax·ing, adjective
Words Nearby taxing
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How to use taxing in a sentence
Seeing our own faces and gestures several hours a day on video is stressful and taxing, Bailenson said.
Four reasons you’re tired of Zoom calls — and what to do about it | Paulina Firozi, Allyson Chiu | March 3, 2021 | Washington PostThe afternoons are for “emails and other sorts of less taxing but important work.”
That’s particularly likely during something as emotionally taxing as a pandemic.
Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Caused a Widespread Existential Crisis | Jamie Ducharme | December 29, 2020 | TimeYou should be an avid PC gamer with a really strong graphics card and a 500 to a 750-watt power source because this resolution can be quite taxing on your system.
Switching to remote work meant more comfortable footwear for around the house, less movement around the office, and less taxing meetings.
“My opponent is a big-government, big-spending, high-taxing” etc.
Perhaps Congress will consider, as I wrote about in the past, super-taxing the Super PACs.
This part of the job is especially taxing for Dafroza, who lost 80 members of her family in the war.
Calibrating every facial expression, that's the hardest and most taxing part.
Running appeals to exactly that sort of girl: The world is intense, the work taxing, and the success (when it comes) tangible.
Are Female Long-Distance Runners More Prone To Suicidal Depression? | Emily de la Bruyere | February 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDorothy said this with a faint hope that her visitors might depart without taxing Mrs. Chester to provide them a meal.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondThe only power which such men as Washington and Franklin denied to the Imperial legislature was the power of taxing.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayNatal, a British colony, protected its sugar by taxing the sugar that came from another British colony, Mauritius.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma GandhiThe plea set up for taxing us in order to support him is that his sword protects us, and enables us to live in peace and security.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThese resolutions affirmed the right, the equity, the policy, and even the necessity of taxing the colonies.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 | Egerton Ryerson
British Dictionary definitions for taxing
/ (ˈtæksɪŋ) /
demanding, onerous, and wearing
Derived forms of taxing
- taxingly, adverb
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