Crossword-Solution: TOILSOME
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Toilsome | a. | Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “TOILSOME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like hard labor | 1 answer |
| Involving hard work | 1 answer |
| Like hard work | 2 answers |
| requiring hard work | 3 answers |
| effortful | 13 answers |
| Hard-working | 17 answers |
| involving effort | 19 answers |
| fatiguing | 25 answers |
| Back-breaking | 28 answers |
| uphill | 28 answers |
| tiring | 29 answers |
| Strenuous. | 32 answers |
| Taxing | 34 answers |
| Herculean | 50 answers |
| Wearisome | 55 answers |
| arduous | 59 answers |
| Laborious | 63 answers |
| Hard | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
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Sentences with TOILSOME (5)
But, in the lapse of the toilsome, thoughtful, and self-devoted years that made up Hester’s life, the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too.
The universal voice of mankind is always declaring that justice and virtue are honourable, but grievous and toilsome; and that the pleasures of vice and injustice are easy of attainment, and are only censured by law and opinion.
Seven days they rode the mountains, and the way was toilsome and weary enough, for it was naught but a stony maze of the rocks where nothing living dwelt, and nothing grew, save now and again a little dwarf willow.
Twice doth the thickening shade beset the vine, Twice weeds with stifling briers o'ergrow the crop; And each a toilsome labour.
They had been overtaken in the Desert by a gale of wind, which so drove the sand and raised up such mountains before them, that their journey had been terribly perplexed and obstructed, and their provisions (including water, the most precious of all) had been exhausted long before they reached the end of their toilsome march.
Quotes with TOILSOME (3)
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.
So it is with sorrow, each thinks his own present grief the most severe. For of this he judges by his own experience. He that is childless considers nothing so sad as to be without children; he that is poor, and has many children, complains of the extreme evils of a large family. He who has but one, looks upon this as the greatest misery, because that one, being set too much store by, and never corrected, becomes willful, and brings grief upon his father. He who has a beautif…
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WP.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1982–2010).