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not judicious. — A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel;
• (painstaking)- taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending
or showing diligent care and effort; careful, ( ; ; );
Recalling the painstaking routine work of his youth, he knocked on every
door. — A Guilty Thing Surprised;
• (scrupulous)- conscientious and exact; painstaking; The fine gentlemen at
Brooks's with whom I had been associating were none too scrupulous, and
regarded money-lenders as legitimate prey. — Richard Carvel;
sedulous = assiduous
• (seduloud)- diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous,
( , ); It was a pity that brilliantly unsuccessful man
had not lived to see the result of his sedulous empiricism;
• (assidulous)- constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task;
persevering; industrious; attentive, ( , , ); The last
half of his life was spent in the most assiduous, minute, exacting labors. —
The Chief End of Man;
travail = toil = labor
• (travail)- painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil, ( ;
); The immediate fruit of this mental travail was a sudden growth or
expansion of his creative powers. — Beethoven;
• (toil)- to labor continuously; work strenuously; But hard as was the toil, and
prodigal the waste of mental power, it absolutely came to nothing. — The Life
of John Clare;
grueling = arduous = backbreaking = laborious = operose = toilsome = punishing
~ tiring
• (grueling)- exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe, ( ,
, ); The day had been grueling, and those to come seemed no
more promising. — The Tree of Death;
• (arduous)- requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult, ( , );
His editorial work was arduous, and many of his own compositions were first
published in The Metropolitan. — Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2;
• (backbreaking)- demanding great effort, endurance, etc.; exhausting; I
myself welcomed such backbreaking labor as a surcease from my fears. —
The High Crusade;
• (laborious)- requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance, ( ); His
efforts were long, laborious, and sometimes apparently hopeless. — Men of
Invention and Industry;
• (operose)- industrious, as a person; In the execution, it was