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What does onerous mean?

onerous

— adjective (= burdensome, taxing) not easily borne; wearing the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests a taxing schedule

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burdensome heavy weighty stodgy bothersome troublesome tiring hard arduous taxing ponderous painful oppressive leaden exacting difficult cumbersome backbreaking weighted waterlogged vexing vexatious uphill tough toilsome toiling tiresome strenuous straining sorrowful severe serious saturnine pregnant plodding painstaking niggling miserable massive lumpish lumbering logy labouring laboured laboring labored hefty heavy-duty gruelling grave

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Simple sentences

It's very onerous.

Movie subtitles

Well, sir, I never saw such an onerous cuss in my whole life.

I had many other onerous duties.

We also praise the Almighty for sending Brother William of Baskerville whose experience in previous duties although onerous to him has been of such service to us here.

The men of this world are laboring under a political system that is every bit as onerous as that of Communist China.

I could put in a word if you find the hush-hush gets too.onerous.

We are very fortunate to have this let up in what is normally an onerous level of patient demand.

Clearly too onerous a provision to comply with.

To not let become over-onerous my interests' encounter with the camp's retrogressive elements.

No matter how onerous the bargain, the Daimyo had given his word.

Does it seem so onerous?

I hope you see it as an honour and don't think of it as some onerous duty. - I don't think you will, but, then again.

It is a hard and onerous task we have set ourselves.

That term is a little onerous, but yes.

It's not very poetic. Because males tended to find those duties onerous, they took every opportunity to avoid them, mostly through geographic exploration, meaningless conquests and war.

Built to conceal their injustices and their onerous taxation!

It's five years, witness protection, and an onerous lifetime probation.

An onerous burden.

It's quite the undertaking, made all the more onerous by your incessant chatter.

Concentrating on a few pieces of onerous legislation is not a plan.

Those rules may seem arbitrary at times, they may seem impossible at times, they may seem unfair or onerous, but they are rules nonetheless.

Because males tended to find those duties onerous, they took every opportunity to avoid them, mostly through geographic exploration, meaningless conquests and war.

You faced an onerous duty, sir.

Not too onerous a mission?

The onerous task that now lies ahead for the Manchester Metropolitan.

Being the crafty and morally onerous chef that I am, whatever crappy levels of the bond I don't sell, I throw into a seafood stew.

I think that midnight call-outs, in addition to studies, might be rather onerous.

That doesn't sound too onerous, does it?

News and current affairs

For the Puerto Rican authorities, this means making the island friendlier to business, including by removing onerous labor-market regulations.

The law's most onerous provisions are those regulating the terms of employment contracts, for they condemn employers who decide to close a plant to a marathon of legal proceedings of uncertain duration and unpredictable outcome.

Any country can leave the EU - and, of course, the eurozone - when the burden of its obligations becomes too onerous.

That is why, after more than two years, interest rates are rising, not falling, in countries crushed by onerous austerity measures.

Any country can leave the EU, and thus the eurozone, when the perceived burden of its obligations becomes too onerous.

These increases make it possible for more people to shun dull, tedious, or onerous work in favor of stimulating, engaging, and mind-expanding work.

It is an onerous and solemn undertaking, uplifting one day and extremely frustrating the next.

It is essential, in particular, to create reliable large-scale financing for developing countries during crises, through a mix of counter-cyclical issuance of SDRs and emergency financing without onerous conditions.

Europe means nothing but sacrifice: northern Europeans paying for southern Europe's woes through large transfers, or southern Europeans repaying onerous - and maybe impossible - levels of debt.

It pressed the International Atomic Energy Agency for greater scrutiny. It got the United Nations Security Council to agree to impose increasingly onerous economic sanctions - and roped allies into even stronger sanctions.

It is an attempt to turn back the clock to the interwar period, when the focus was on closing off: imposing onerous trade restrictions and persecuting or expelling minority groups.

Moreover, although the European Commission clearly has a duty to prevent mismanagement and fraud, every application for EU funding requires extremely onerous procedures.

But, as the Nelson case shows, women are not just subjected to the straightforward - equally onerous - lookism that men, too, might face on the job.

It got the United Nations Security Council to agree to impose increasingly onerous economic sanctions - and roped allies into even stronger sanctions.

Combined with their low and declining GDP growth prospects, their debt burdens are becoming sufficiently onerous to raise questions about whether they can stabilize the situation and restore growth on their own.

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