painstaking
IPA: pˈeɪnsteɪkɪŋ
noun
- The application of careful and attentive effort.
adjective
- Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
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Examples of "painstaking" in Sentences
- All good work arose in painstaking, painful sobriety, without any pleasant buzzing in the head.
- For several weeks the back of my brain was busy contemplating this daft question, after disassembling the word painstaking in my head.
- The truth is, I didn’t want to have to call any parents, so by outlining everything in painstaking detail in my newsletters, I could avoid it.
- Maud Colas, the patient navigator assigned to Ms. Williams, recalls painstaking sessions to get her to agree to treatment -- even while respecting her religious convictions.
- It will explain, in painstaking detail, both why I tend to go ballistic on people who are a little pushy with their advice, and also why so many people were very very upset about the OSBP proposal.
- However, the sad story of the Yaquis 'fate, at the hands of the Mexican government itself, was related in painstaking detail in a book entitled Barbarous Mexico, published by an American, John Kenneth Turner, in 1911.
- Roxy Paine’s maelstrom of metal branches entangle the rooftop garden, and Argentino-brit Pablo Bronstein’s subtle pisstake in painstaking architects’ drawings of the neoclassical pomposity of the Met itself is quietly outstanding.
- Not only did the doctor who did my root canal explain, in painstaking detail, what would happen and why, I had to listen to a little lesson about possible risks and sign a whole bunch of papers saying I understood the risks and was OK with them.
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