adjective
Etymology: from past participle of labor (II)
: produced or performed with labor
breathing of the men … seemed immensely loud and labored — Irwin Shaw
: bearing marks of labor and effort : elaborately wrought : not easy or natural
a labored signature that would seem to indicate only the most rudimentary kind of schooling — Hamilton Basso
the cumbersome paraphernalia of expression which make his poetry so labored and artificial — M.R.Adams
• la·bored·ly adverb
• la·bored·ness noun -es