Meaning of toilsome in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    toilsome

    Definitions

    1. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion

    Examples

    • « especially physical effort »
    • « worked their arduous way up the mining valley »
    • « a grueling campaign »
    • « hard labor »
    • « heavy work »
    • « heavy going »
    • « spent many laborious hours on the project »
    • « set a »

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  • « I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. »
    Alexis de Tocqueville

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