What is another word for "labored"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "labored": abrupt, affectation, affected, artificial, awkward, barbarism, barbarous, break, cacophony, crude, dislocate, dry, euphuism, euphuistic, forced, formal, fustian, graceless, grotesque, harsh, inelegance, inelegant, jaw, mannered, mannerism, marinism, offensive, polite, ponderous, rude, slang, solecism, stiff, stiffness, teeth, that, the, turgid, uncouth, ungraceful.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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