Painstaking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PAINSTAKING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• careful diligence
• The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.
ADJECTIVE:
• taking pains
• done with or employing great care and thoroughness
• Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
• characterized by extreme care and great effort
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action of taking pains; diligent care and effort

Words related to PAINSTAKING

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Words that contain PAINSTAKING

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How to use PAINSTAKING in a sentence

• He was industrious and painstaking, rising early in the morning and retiring early in the evening.
• He showed her the marvellous and painstaking pencil sketch of Napoleon looking out over a maltese-cross sunset done by Aunt Martha at the age of ten.
• From the faded outlines of the original it had been drawn with painstaking accuracy.
• Nor does painstaking archaeology of scenery or dresses any longer throw dust in our eyes.
• First he was a surveyor, and so careful and painstaking was he that his work still stands the test.
• From what we learned then and later, it was evident that the work was undertaken after the most careful study and in the most painstaking spirit.
• The preparation for market required the greatest painstaking of all.
• The examinations of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday gave evidence of thorough work and of painstaking study.
• The endless painstaking of his work and the time he took over it were almost proverbial.
• They made a thorough and painstaking search of the place, but failed to meet with any success and finally gave it up.
• If the class were very small, results of some distinctness might doubtless thus be obtained by a painstaking teacher.
• It ended in a painstaking keeping of distance between them, a task which, when they were in company, fell often to Mrs.
• Observation, painstaking and long-continued, alone can furnish the desired information.
• But Tiberius was watched with the most painstaking malevolence.
• Our commercial extension, our financial rise in the world, is far removed from any love of adventure, it is the fruit of painstaking and plodding labor.
• The learned men classify the forms with painstaking detail.
• Animals and plants had been studied for centuries and many accurate and painstaking observations had been made upon them.
• And he does it all in a painstaking way and with evident sincerity.
• I may note Donnelly, an American gentleman of research and painstaking which would be creditable to a German scholar.
• I was sure that his painstaking description of assets and market values was boring her.
• She had been a true wife, though sometimes too strong-minded, and a painstaking mother, whose children, however, had never loved her as most mothers like to be loved.
• Had Shakespeare been also Burbage, it is possible that he would have been even more painstaking than he was in leading up to the leading man.
• He must have been exceedingly industrious as well as painstaking, since he left two hundred pictures as his contribution to Dutch art.
• Much credit is due the members of this association for their patient and painstaking studies.
• My master took an active personal interest in me and was very minute and painstaking in his instructions.
• If we would equal what has been done in the past we must be just as painstaking, and neglect no detail.
• She was concerned with no books except the Bible and the ancient ledger in which, with painstaking exactness, she kept her household accounts.
• He could not shine in jumping or leaping or climbing, but in the drill his painstaking attention placed him on a par with everybody else.
• They are honest, painstaking, thoroughly reliable, according to their lights.
• Spencer has also, after most painstaking inquiries, formulated what he conceives to be the origin of religious belief in man.
• The receipts we have given are capable of being varied and modified by an intelligent pains-taking cook, to suit the tastes of her employers.
• But it was achieved with infinite toil and patience, by the most painstaking experiments, many times repeated to make sure.
• It should be said, however, that of late years the more famous battles of the theatre have been reproduced with remarkable liberality and painstaking.
• But the flood of that tide did not come to Fulton without long waiting and painstaking preparation.
• He urges us to give more regard to thrift, to be more painstaking and thorough in what we do, and finally, to overcome our prevalent lack of respect for authority.

Similar words containing PAINSTAK without suffix ing

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