Definition of Toilsome

Toilsome

Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.

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Toilsome Quotations

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
Gilbert Parker

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
Jean de la Bruyere

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Toilsome Translations

toilsome in Italian is faticoso
toilsome in Latin is laboriosus
toilsome in Spanish is penoso, trabajoso

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