Definitionadj. characterized by extreme care and great effort
Last update: August 3, 2015
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She completed the painting with painstaking detail. [adjective]
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He is a gentle, painstaking man. [adjective]
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My work is characterized by painstaking attention to detail. [adjective]
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Stephen 's solution was typically painstaking, but extremely effective. [adjective]
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The Professor with painstaking accuracy kept a log of the run, noting every stop and the time lost. [Please select]
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He announced his presence by that gentle Rumboldian cough which so many have tried (unsuccessfully) to imitateshort, painstaking yet withal so characteristic of the man. [Please select]
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Princess Mary well knew this painstaking expression of her father's.' [Please select]
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A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away. [adjective]
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I afterwards with a little painstaking, acquir'd as much of the Spanish as to read their books also. [adjective]
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At a later period when he had grown fat he accounted for his skill in taking "cut balls" at tennis by saying that he was a very "painstaking man." [Please select]
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His school record was fair: "Painstaking, but slow," was the report in studies. [Please select]
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