Assiduous Synonyms and Antonyms

Assiduous Sentence Examples

• Burke, on the contrary, was assiduous and orderly, and had none of the vices of profusion.

• He was an assiduous student, commonly spending sixteen hours a day among his books; but his learning (to quote Justin Winsor's contrast between Increase and Cotton Mather) "usually left his natural ability and his education free from entanglements."

• He was assiduous in his attendance on Queen Hortense until the Hundred Days brought him into active service again.

• The years 1865-1870 were occupied with assiduous labour.

• He opposed the execution of Charles I., lived quietly under the Commonwealth, and was assiduous in promoting the king's return; for this he was afterwards offered the bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield, but declined it, it is said, on his wife's persuasion.