Related Clues:

• Stiffly formal
• Worked hard
• Affected, in a way
• Artificially formal
• Worked a 12-hour shift, e.g.
• Slogged away
• Applied elbow grease
• Overly formal, as writing
• Worked up a sweat
• Awkwardly formal
• Wooden in manner
• Worked arduously
• Stiff and pompous
• Worked long and hard
• Laboured, worked hard