labored

Produced or done with effort.

Lacking natural ease; strained.

Laboriously formed; made or done with laborious pains or care.

Bearing the marks of constrained or forced effort; not easy, natural, or spontaneous: as, a labored style of composition; a labored painting.

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural

appearing to require strong effort.

Simple past tense and past participle of labor.

Of an action that is difficult to perform.

requiring or showing effort

lacking natural ease