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laborious
laborious [ lə báwri əss ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. needing effort: requiring much unwelcome, often tedious effort
2. not fluent: showing signs of effort or difficulty rather than naturalness or fluency, especially in speech or writing

laboriously adverb
laboriousness noun

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