sedulous
- s marked by care and persistent effort
sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles
- He is a specialist in those technologies to which necessity is not only mother but sedulous nurse.
- In a way it was fortunate that Frost was so sedulous on his own behalf because he supported a large and disaster-prone family.
- When we have cast aside the sedulous mimicking of modes of a bygone era, then and then only shall our decorative art be truly creative.