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Definition

difficult (requiring significant effort)

They argue that onerous regulation is driving business from the city.

onerous = requiring significant effort

My duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests.

onerous = difficult

He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

onerous = difficult

The insubstantial frost feathers ensured that those last twenty feet remained hard, scary, onerous.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

onerous = difficult

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Seneca
Another thing she did, and which made traveling an onerous trial for her.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Tarzan of the Apes
It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
Some did this and continue to do it, though it is perhaps more onerous than working with blacks.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
His function was a responsible one, at once onerous & thankless, and his fidelity in it the greater because of his strong patriotic impulse.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
While other states have caps of more than a million dollars, and many have no cap at all, several states impose onerous eligibility requirements.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
For these guys, the concept carried many onerous responsibilities.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
But for the moment he undertook nothing more onerous.
Henry James -- Washington Square
Oh, they were not onerous: just to sit at the head of his table now and then.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
And 'orribly and onerously overrun?
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
The milk of the poppy, for when the pain grows too onerous.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
His duties had not been onerous but now he found that he had an overwhelming desire to sneeze.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
But on that onerous day, oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"Oh, well, nothing at all onerous, I assure you," said Scrim-geour.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
It is a very onerous business,[467] this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays

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