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difficult — especially requiring great effort over an extended period of time- At last, they won their long and arduous fight for independence.
arduous = difficult
- She undertook the arduous work of caring for twins.
- I appreciate your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here.
- It was a brief resting period between the exacting and arduous planting season and the equally exacting but light-hearted month of harvests.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- My dear guardian, with the assistance of Miss Prism, has the arduous task of looking after me.Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
- being a commercial traveller is arduous but without travelling I couldn't earn my living.Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- They worked their arduous way up the mining valley.
- I can think of no reason to let go of the hold we now have on this arduous an enterprise.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- The rest of us must be contented with a fair, but a less arduous, goal.E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
- It was arduous work and neither of them knew the technique.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- They were arduous, for he had to attend on an average three confinements a day.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- The white rectangle moved with the busy arduous ants.Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
- Then Shefford divined why the Navajo had made that arduous climb.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- Even this simple conversation seemed impossibly arduous.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- But now, he turned against the stream in which he had drifted so short a while before, and began swimming arduously back against the current.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- We did not consider going to British-controlled Palestine as the life there would be too arduous for my parents.Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
- What had he taken this arduous climb for?Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- The leg I'd run had been arduous and long, but there were still others—more questions and answers—more key witnesses, many more hours to Gail's day.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- Her guests reported an arduous ride down the mountain, with only one incident to lend excitement.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
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