laborious
adjective
requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance.
laboriousness
-
a word derived from
laborious.
Example Sentences
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Which is why, this December, I tried a different tack: investing in a trio of simple tools that promised to up my cookie game while dialing down its laboriousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Since she’s doing everything online right now, it wouldn’t surprise me if her fine motor skills have lagged some, which is probably contributing to the laboriousness of her writing.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2021
Thus, he uncorks sentences like this: "we is all of us taking a deserved rest, for we expended a prodigious, a fantastic, a burdensomely amount of laboriousness and energy."
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021
Nor does Ms. Fornés’s “Drowning,” a gentle paean to the laboriousness and loneliness of living small.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2016
Aside from the preponderance of feminine endings, which is inevitable in Scandinavian blank verse, what strikes us most in this translation is its laboriousness.
From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Martin Brown Ruud
