arduous
adjective
requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult.
arduousness
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a word derived from
arduous.
Example Sentences
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In separate interviews, the stars each attested to the arduousness of filming “1883.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
But pulling off this kind of funny business is tricky: A “39 Steps” production needs to suggest the arduousness of theatricality without making its theatricality feel arduous.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020
The arduousness of the career and the elusiveness of its rewards result in some other common characteristics, which Johnson enumerates: determination, passion, and innovative thinking.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2014
The Smith Island Baking Company, the only bakery on Smith Island, has proclaimed itself “the #1 Dessert Company in the World,” and assuming they’re judging on a scale of arduousness, I have to agree.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2014
Though not comparing with the arduousness of field service, our duties were by no means slight.
From Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops Personal Narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No. 7, Second Series by Joshua M. (Joshua Melancthon) Addeman
