laboured vs strenuous

laboured

adj
  • Expressive of strenuous effort. 

  • Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production. 

strenuous

adj
  • Requiring great exertion; very laborious 

  • Having great vigour or energy; forceful. 

How often have the words laboured and strenuous occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )