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operose adjective arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, demanding, difficult, effortful, emasculating, embittering, enervating, exacting, fagging, fatiguing, formidable, grinding, grueling, hard, hard to cope with, Herculean, irksome, laborious, onerous, painstaking, plodding, pressing, Sisyphean, straining, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, weakening, wearing, wearisome, wearying
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arduous bothersome burdensome crushing demanding difficult diligent effortful emasculating embittering enervating exacting fagging fatiguing formidable grinding grueling hard hard to cope with | 15) "Prima del tramonto le tre o quattro bagascette di Donnafugata (ve ne erano anche li non raggruppate ma operose nelle loro aziende private) comparvero in piazza col crine adorno di nastrini tricolori per protestare contro l'esclusione delle donne dal voto; le poverine vennero beffeggiate via anche dai piu accesi liberali e furono costrette a rintanarsi" (108). The mechanical idiom is operose to explicate and that makes it ball-buster further. La Regaldina, Duello d'anime, Rogo d'amore, fu possible farla passare per decenni per una scrittrice "rosa," sentimentale e generica, e assimilarla in tutto a quelle operose artigiane della penna dal lieto fine assicurato che facevano la fortuna delle varie "Biblioteche delle Signorine," travolgendola poi come loro in un'impietosa e ingiusta oscurita. |
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Operculina turpethum operculitis operculum operculum operculum Operculum (gastropod) Operculum (gastropod) operculums operculums operculums Opere Citato Operession Operession operetta operetta Operettas Operettas Operette Operette OPERF operire operon operon operon operon network Operons Operons Operons Operophtera brumata Operophtera brumata operose operoselyoperosely operoseness operoseness Operosity operosus Operous OPERREQ OPERRESP OPERS OperServ Opertaneous Operting System/Virtual Storage 1 Operton OPES OPES OPES OPES OPES Opes Prime Asset Management OPESCA OPESS OPEST Opet Opet OPETA Opetide Opetusalan Ammattij Opetussuunnitelma OPEU | |||||||
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