5 uses
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Definition
hard work and care in tasks — often continuing when others might quit because of difficulties
- She was diligent at Red Cross work.Chapter 35 (1% in)
diligent = hard work and care
- During her three years of library work several men showed diligent interest in her—the treasurer of a fur-manufacturing firm, a teacher, a newspaper reporter, and a petty railroad official.Chapter 1 (99% in)
- By diligent consultation of American fiction she discovered that this was the only virile and amusing manner in which boys could function; that boys who were not compounded of the gutter and the mining-camp were mollycoddles and unhappy.Chapter 9 (36% in)
- Raymie was diligent and rather strong.Chapter 23 (1% in)
- She had a hen-like, crumb-pecking, diligent appearance.Chapter 30 (38% in)
There are no more uses of "diligent" in Main Street.
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