Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an onerous manner; so as to be burdensome; oppressively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an onerous manner.
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- adverb In an
onerous manner.
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- adverb in an onerous manner
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Examples
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Gripes about the Bud.tv registration experience from paidContent and Lost Remote echoed my own, which I’d be charitable in describing as onerously creepy.
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Some of those 300 moved to Mississippi from neighboring states where braiding is still onerously regulated.
Want Jobs? Cut Local Regulations Chip Mellor 2011
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Talent shifted into the less-onerously regulated shadow-banking sector, where assets grew rapidly through 2011.
A Hypothetical Bank Crisis Finds that Risks Remain Vivek Ahuja 2011
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More onerously, however, these developments are a sobering reminder of Algeria's recent history.
Rabah Ghezali: Why Has the Arab Spring Not Spread to Algeria? Rabah Ghezali 2011
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I vetoed the onerously bad bills from that evil Republican Legislature.
Mitchell Ceasar: The Curious Case of Charlie Crist Mitchell Ceasar 2010
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The above requirements leave many questions unanswered and may empower the FDA to enforce them onerously against small farmers, but loosely, if at all, for agribusiness because corporate officials run the agency and decide policy.
Printing: HR 2749 - A Stealth Agribusiness Empowering Act 2009
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"It is ironic on the heels of Mrs. Obama's recent art-is-essential speech that the basic elements of artmaking and art showing studio space, gallery space remain unavailable, or onerously expensive, for so many people, and that help in the form of grants or institutional support is never quite within reach for most."
Discussing the gallery system (with addendum) EAGEAGEAG 2009
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"It is ironic on the heels of Mrs. Obama's recent art-is-essential speech that the basic elements of artmaking and art showing studio space, gallery space remain unavailable, or onerously expensive, for so many people, and that help in the form of grants or institutional support is never quite within reach for most."
Archive 2009-10-01 EAGEAGEAG 2009
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Make food-safety regulations sensitive to scale and marketplace, so that small producers selling direct off the farm or at a farmers 'market are not regulated as onerously as a multinational food manufacturer.
Michael Pollan: A Food Revolution in the Making, from Victory Gardens to the White House Lawn 2009
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The above requirements leave many questions unanswered and may empower the FDA to enforce them onerously against small farmers, but loosely, if at all, for agribusiness because corporate officials run the agency and decide policy.
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