All 5 Uses of
laborious
in
War and Peace
- He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed.†
Chpt 11 *
- Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it.†
Chpt 11
- Tipsy and perspiring, with dim eyes and wide-open mouths, they were all laboriously singing some song or other.†
Chpt 11
- Zaletaev, brought out with effort: "ke-e-e-e," he drawled, laboriously pursing his lips, "le-trip-ta-la-de-bu-de-ba, e de-tra-va-ga-la" he sang.†
Chpt 15
- To this, modern history laboriously replies either that Napoleon was a great genius, or that Louis XIV was very proud, or that certain writers wrote certain books.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(laborious) difficult (requiring hard work)