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Examples of toilsome
toilsome
The majority of the old stuck to toilsome hand-scrubbing.
From the forbes.com
It was a slow, toilsome process.
From the dailyherald.com
Today milder, real-life versions of such creatures are starting to find places in factories and plants, and what they are taking over is a number of industry's most toilsome chores.
From the time.com
The toilsome chore of untaming their pampered playmate gives the movie tension, much of it spelled out in pictures more than equal to the rich lion lore contained in the book.
From the time.com
- Arduous: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- (toilsomeness) laboriousness: the quality of requiring extended effort
