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adj. painfully or tediously slow and boring.
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adj. marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
Word Usage
"Because I went in dragging my residual yoke of sadness, the one that seems perpetually tied to my shoulders, and came out with a definite spring in my step and a considerably lighter heart."