laborious
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Laborious stop-motion and model effects gave way to computer-generated images.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2015
The Quality of Fancy Light and Airy, She Will Not Yield to the Laborious Wooer In literature, as in life, the quality of fancy is rare—as rare as radium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laborious examination is needed, and even this will not, perhaps, lead us to anything more than probability.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
One is suspicious of the Laborious Orient ivory sphere in sphere; for when we can see how the trick is done we lose the true thrill.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
Laborious, patient, and acute, he knew with singular skill how to disentangle the skein of the most complicated affair, and from the midst of a thousand threads lay hold to the right one.
From The Widow Lerouge by Gaboriau, Émile
Vocabulary lists containing laborious
Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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