What is "hardworking"

Usage examples of "hardworking".

I hate those guys -- the self-righteous, hardworking, antisexist types who get all frothy over gender issues.

Dragon Run, he pointed out Sot as an example of the type of businessperson his parents and grandparents were hardworking, indefatigable, and possessing a kind of street sense that kept their business alive when others failed.

At the same time the cocaine began to diffuse out of the coronary vessels into the extracellular fluid, bathing the hardworking heart muscle fibers.

GIRL HAD BEEN born Pramilla Barot a little less than sixteen years before in a small village on the border of Rajasthan and Gujerat, the disastrous third daughter of a struggling farmer and his hardworking but increasingly ill wife.

The juvenile Purples were largely made up of children of recently immigrated Eastern European Jews, law abiding and hardworking families fleeing centuries of religious and cultural persecution in Europe.

She would have thanked the hardworking crustaceans who had joined together to drag them clear of the valley, but how did one thank a crab?

Once they succeeded in wending their way down to the harborfront, the travelers found themselves swept up in the usual swirl of commerce and industry, just another clutch of exotics in a sea of hardworking foreigners and industrious visitors.

Like nearly everyone else in Helmshead, the Hogans were kind, hardworking people, and their four-year-old twin boys were a miracle of activity and lopsided grins.

The portraits in the book are indelibly etched in our minds: Ruth's hardworking, laughing father whose Chaplinesque humor and skill at mime carried the family through its darkest, most impoverished times.

The procedure is cut-and-dried, and this latest squad from Auschwitz - a sturdy gang of Jews at last, hardworking physical specimens with smart work leaders-has caught on fast.

Also to my hardworking assistant, Jennifer Osti, and to Surya Bhattacharya, the keeper of the ominous Brown Box of research clippings.

Remembering what he had heard of frontier days on his own world, quilting parties, corn-husking bees, where hardworking farmers whiled the time with what would later be considered games for young children—bobbing for apples, blindman’s buff—he realized he should have expected this.

There is also Deuteronomy, the gardener, who is also hardworking, reliable and honest though he is not teetotal.

In another place, living among the honest and hardworking, Angelo Vestieri might well have grown up to live a life of simplicity and little consequence.

She terrorized everyone who worked for her, bad-mouthed her friends behind their backs, and let the world believe a hardworking English boy—who adored her to pieces, mind you—was little better than a gigolo.