burden-some

Updated: May 18, 2025

She knows city life as you cannot know it, and, although she discards many of the burden-some conventions of society, she realizes the necessity of observing some of its laws.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters

But it was not so burden-some as that of the cardinal; and the consequence of the poet's greater leisure was a second edition of the Furioso, in the year 1521, with additions and corrections; still, however, in forty cantos only.

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2