Definition of Laborious

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Definition of Laborious
	Laborious Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic. Related Definitions: As, Devoted, Diligent, Industrious, Labor, Laborious, Mechanic, Or, Perseverance, Requiring, Tiresome, To, Toilsome

Laborious Quotations

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
Dana Carvey

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Herbert Croly

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Fanny Kemble

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
Sarah Bernhardt

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
Ezra Cornell

Laborious Translations

laborious in German is arbeitsam
laborious in Norwegian is strevsom
laborious in Spanish is laborioso

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