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Synonyms for painstaking

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Synonyms for painstaking

showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details

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Synonyms for painstaking

characterized by extreme care and great effort

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After having shown the public spirit of this praiseworthy little animal as a member of a community, and his amiable and exemplary conduct as the father of a family, we grieve to record the perils with which he is environed, and the snares set for him and his painstaking household.
All sports and occupations were suspended, excepting that in the lodges the painstaking squaws were silently busied in preparing the repasts for the warriors.
The preferment seemed to him in the nature of a well-merited reward for painstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts of greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he had been married to the Hon.
Without the painstaking and generous assistance of Mr.
Summary: This stunning image captured after weeks of planning and hours of painstaking alignment
THE Salisbury spy probe could take several weeks as investigators carry out a "painstaking" operation to identify how a nerve agent was used to poison a former double agent on British soil.
painstaking individual groups of recorders over many too often publicly recognised "The images show how much colourful and diverse life there is off the North East coast, and they make it accessible to people," said Paula.
painstaking 16+1+9+14-19 = 20+1[sup.(11_9+14-7) ] [=21]
Snellgrove, batting at six, remained defiant, however, as he ground out a painstaking 48, putting on a priceless 38 with young Michael Kirwin for the 6th wicket.
The maps are the fruit of painstaking reasearch and have been shown in Congress.
London, June 11 (ANI): Katherine Heigl, whose movie Killers recently premiered in London, says acting in the action-comedy flick was "painstaking".
DETECTIVE who trawled through more than 12 hours of CCTV to catch a robber has been praised for his painstaking efforts.
POLICE are conducting "painstaking" forensic tests today after two young sisters found the severed head of a woman in a plastic bag as they played on a beach.
Hampshire's Michael Carberry made a painstaking hundred as the England Performance Squad closed day one of their match against an MRF XI on 288 for three in Chennai.
1, displays smart, painstaking craft that can engage viewers on emotional as well as aesthetic levels.