toilful

Definition of toilfulnext

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Adjective
  • When Thomson went through a difficult divorce, in 2014, Djena would often check in on her, showing up at her door with food.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Crow-Armstrong had just failed to make a highly difficult, leaping catch at the wall.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • Rossellini plays the formidable Madame de Noailles, an old-school aristocrat devoted to Marie Antoinette and haunted by a lost love.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • Vegas will remain formidable because of its eternal win-now mandate.
    Eric Stephens, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • But, as The Hollywood Reporter’s chief film critic David Rooney noted in his review, the film becomes a bit meandering and arduous over the course of its two-hour-twenty-minute runtime.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
  • Also, there was an element of danger, and doing a scene that is really arduous, achieving an emotional peak for an amount of time and performing physical acts and screaming [about] a matter of life and death.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • As a young woman, my mother rebelled against this laborious femininity, mostly wearing jeans and loose men’s shirts.
    Benny Peterson, Vogue, 4 May 2026
  • In his first competitive outing since being sidelined with arm fatigue, Imai threw 59 pitches across two laborious innings during a minor-league rehab appearance with Double-A Corpus Christi.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Each of those teams will be competing for playoff spots again, leaving the Raiders with no easy divisional wins and a tough out-of-division schedule.
    Sam Warren, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • The group did just enough against Sale and a tough Braves bullpen to avoid getting shut out for the third time in five games.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • Routes range from easy to strenuous, and all are within a two-hour drive of Denver.
    Abigail Bliss, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
  • Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning or evening.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • Hantavirus is typically spread through contact with infected rodents and can lead to severe respiratory illness, though cases remain rare, according to the WHO.
    Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Researchers found health disparities persisted across Texas, with some gaps appearing more severe than in other Southwestern states.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • The franchise originally began with the 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel and starring Gunnar Hansen as the murderous Leatherface.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 2 May 2026
  • His main antagonist is Jimmy (Harry Goodwins), a white supremacist who is the sheriff’s son and the leader of the murderous gang.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
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“Toilful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toilful. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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