LABOURED
heavy, labored, laboured
(adjective) requiring or showing effort; “heavy breathing”; “the subject made for labored reading”
labored, laboured, strained
(adjective) lacking natural ease; “a labored style of debating”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
laboured
simple past tense and past participle of labour
Adjective
laboured (comparative more laboured, superlative most laboured)
Expressive of strenuous effort.
Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.
Source: Wiktionary
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