Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Laborious

Laborious; adjective – distinguished by or involving labour or exertion; entailing labour in construction or execution; not fluent; giving birth with difficulty; of labour - difficult.
'The prisoners in the chain gang found the manual digging of drainage ditches a laborious task.'
'The vicar's sermon on moral decline in the modern age was so laborious that half of his congregation fell asleep before he'd finished.'