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She is likely to succeed in the job because she is smart, friendly, and industrious.industrious = habitually works hard
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The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. (source)industrious = hardworking people
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She is the most industrious of all Tashi's father's widows, and her fields are praised for their cleanliness, productivity and general attractiveness. (source)industrious = hardworking
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The next morning I slept late, considering the on-and-off night I'd had, plus I'd been falling into lazy habits without the honey house to keep me industrious.† (source)
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These people were something Germanic and sectarian, crossbred with seventh-generation Puritans — an industrious but fervent mix that produced, in addition to the usual collection of virtuous, lumpen farmers, three circuit riders, two inept land speculators, and one petty embezzler — chancers with a visionary streak and one eye on the horizon.† (source)
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Rather, having been suitably industrious before lunch, he should spend his afternoon in wise liberty.† (source)
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Every farmer remembers what an unusually sober and industrious young man he was himself.† (source)
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I stared at her, holding the pot in one hand and washcloth in the other, but she returned her attention to the sink, scrubbing industriously.† (source)industriously = with hard work
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One of our neighbors was a lifetime welfare recipient, but in between asking my grandmother to borrow her car or offering to trade food stamps for cash at a premium, she'd blather on about the importance of industriousness.† (source)industriousness = the habit of hard workstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Occasionally drinking too much, getting into a fight, or even having an extramarital affair—these weren't indiscretions significant enough to destroy the reputation and standing of an honest and industrious black man who could be trusted to do good work.† (source)
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I took out my book industriously, but halfway through rechecking the first problem I was daydreaming, watching the sunlight play on the red-barked trees.† (source)industriously = with hard work
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And my mother's education was the product of the riots of 1937 and the industriousness of Mr. Chance.† (source)industriousness = the habit of hard work
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They want industrious boys.† (source)
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'Mortar!' he would bellow, the word echoing over the site, and I would snatch up the first bucket that came to hand, or a brick trowel, and pretend to be working industriously.† (source)industriously = with hard work
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What with Japanese industriousness and high-tech culture and the market principles that the Denny's chain is always pursuing, it shouldn't be that hard to get crispy toast, don't you think?† (source)industriousness = the habit of hard work
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She is pulling and untwisting and bending forward, occasionally, to chew at the nylon with her teeth, giving the impression of a quiet and industrious animal gnawing its way through a fence.† (source)
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