taxing

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidably
get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
grail
gruelling
gruellingly
onerously
overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
problematic
trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive
unintuitive

Examples of burdensome

burdensome
It tends to be more burdensome for society.
Basically, farmers and businessmen are opposed to green taxes because they increase production costs and are burdensome since they create uncertainty about future tax levels.
Mayors also felt it would be too burdensome to collect insurance premiums from elderly residents 65 years and older.
The obligatory nature of ghamkhadi is widely perceived as binding and burdensome as it constrains as well as shapes social visiting among women.
Although highly effective, the nightly infusions are painful and burdensome to patients, resulting in non-compliance.
Nevertheless, the procedure is computationaly burdensome and requires the knowledge of the second moment of true errors, which is generally unknown.
Not in all cases though: it is perfectly conceivable to think that donating a liver lobe is less burdensome whilst alive than once dead.
Other large landowners may simply have found the duties too burdensome or inconvenient, and therefore chose not to serve.
Furthermore, legislation that governed women's work, from the restriction of hours to provisions for maternity benefits, made them burdensome employees.
One of them specifically addressed the issue of false alarms that could prove burdensome to both residents and facility staff members.
These costs fall on top of what many argue is already an administratively burdensome system.
The sense of responsibility felt by family members is both burdensome and very essential to them.
Most burdensome however was the lack of time and space for the rehearsal of new productions.
They do, of course, impose a particular relationship on the child that may have significant burdensome aspects.
However, there may be cases in which the only available treatment is highly burdensome and patients routinely refuse treatment.
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