burdensome

Example Sentences

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Burdensome grievance procedures discourage federal executive branch officials from filing negative assessment of employees, 99 percent of whom receive the “fully successful” rating.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

Burdensome French loans, sometimes forcibly imposed, set off a cycle of underdevelopment that has made today’s Haiti poorer by tens of billions of dollars, some scholars estimate.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2022

Burdensome self-reexamination to improve sociality certainly isn’t what’s meant by the disability rights message, “nothing about us without us,” and sacrifices of identity should not be the price of acceptance from nondisabled people.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2021

Burdensome requirements, poorly administered programs and landlords refusing to cooperate meant tens of thousands of tenants never got assistance.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2021

He might then well answer me, and other such comforters, as Job answered his: "Burdensome and heavy comforters be you."

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica