burthensome
- a word derived from burthen.
Example Sentences
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By 1712 it had become "burthensome to the nation" to house bankrupts in London's two debtors' prisons, despite the exaction of stiff entrance fees and rents for all cells better than the most wretched.
From Time Magazine Archive
The patriot’s library has not been burthensome in latter times.
From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Duffy, Charles Gavan
I had observed, during my residence in this country, that there were vast numbers of horses running wild in the woods, and hence rather burthensome than useful to the inhabitants.
The alcabala, an impost upon all purchases and sales, including even the smallest transactions, was perhaps the most burthensome.
It is too burthensome to them, and they have complained to me bitterly.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
