labored (adj.)

• affected
• alliterative
• arduous
• artificial
• assonant
• awkward
• backbreaking
• baroque
• bombastic
• burdensome
• busy
• chanting
• chichi
• clumsy
• contrived
• cramped
• crushing
• cumbrous
• difficult
• effortful
• elaborate
• elegant
• elephantine
• excessive
• fancy
• farfetched
• fine
• flamboyant
• florid
• flowery
• forced
• formal
• frilly
• fussy
• grueling
• halting
• hard
• hard-fought
• heavy
• hefty
• humdrum
• inept
• killing
• laborious
• leaden
• lumbering
• luxuriant
• luxurious
• maladroit
• monotone
• monotonous
• moresque
• onerous
• operose
• oppressive
• ornate
• ostentatious
• overdone
• overwrought
• painful
• picturesque
• pompous
• ponderous
• pretty-pretty
• punishing
• rhymed
• rhyming
• rich
• rococo
• sesquipedalian
• singsong
• stiff
• stilted
• strained
• strenuous
• tedious
• toilsome
• tough
• troublesome
• turgid
• unnatural
• unwieldy
• uphill
• wearisome
• weighty