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Slow and clumsy because of great weight; laborious; performed with painstaking care. Now esp. of literary style, manner, etc.: tedious, laboured…
Of painting: Characterized by blotted touches heavily laid on. figurative of descriptive writing. (It belongs to the phraseology of Art-Criticism.)
Of a joke, humour, etc.: clumsy.