Both Uses of
laborious
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- I waited until we had both unspooled the long tongue of line over the lake, until the flies that my grandfather laboriously tied in his basement had lightly come to rest on the surface.†
laboriously = with difficulty
- It was a laborious process, but then again ....I had time.†
*laborious = difficult
Definition:
difficult (requiring hard work)