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1 —4 uses as in:
she is diligent
Definition
hard work and care in tasks — often continuing when others might quit because of difficulties
- You remember that in the Bible about—about being diligent in the Lord's business, or something?Chapter 17 (82% in)
diligent = hard work and care
- She was a good woman, a kind woman, a diligent woman, but no one, save perhaps Tinka her ten-year-old, was at all interested in her or entirely aware that she was alive.Chapter 1 (51% in)
- It was diligently imitative of the best literary models of the day; of heart-to-heart-talk advertisements, "sales-pulling" letters, discourses on the "development of Will-power," and hand-shaking house-organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of Business.Chapter 3 (88% in)
- He who had once controlled or seemed to control his life in a progress unimpassioned but diligent and sane was for that fortnight borne on a current of desire and very bad whisky and all the complications of new acquaintances, those furious new intimates who demand so much more attention than old friends.Chapter 29 (18% in)
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- Babbitt's virtues as a real-estate broker—as the servant of society in the department of finding homes for families and shops for distributors of food—were steadiness and diligence.Chapter 4 (32% in)
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