All 5 Uses of
diligent
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- 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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- Raymie was diligent and rather strong.†
Chpt 23
- She had a hen-like, crumb-pecking, diligent appearance.†
Chpt 30
- She was diligent at Red Cross work.
Chpt 35 *diligent = hard work and care
Definition:
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(diligent as in: she is diligent) hard work and care in tasks -- often continuing when others might quit because of difficulties