laboriously

[ UK /lɐbˈɔːɹɪəsli/ ]
[ US /ɫəˈbɔɹiəsɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a laborious manner
    their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them
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How To Use laboriously In A Sentence

  • Most of the contentiousness seems laboriously excogitated.
  • A cleaning woman was laboriously washing the marble floor of the foyer.
  • We could not tell for certain what his avenging missile had been, but the last we saw of the scene was the other carabinero laboriously plucking out of his colleague's nape what we hoped and believed were sea-urchin spines. Try Anything Twice
  • Laboriously rolling each case on a lube pad was a chore to be avoided but today we can use any of several excellent aerosol case lubes.
  • The wind was against the Russian fleet, so the ships would have to be towed or kedged, laboriously pulled to windward by advancing their anchors, a few yards at a time. John Paul Jones
  • We walked on for some minutes in musing silence, and the rude log-hut in which my wise companion had his home came in view, -- the flocks grazing on undulous pastures, the lone drinking at a watercourse fringed by the slender gum-trees, and a few fields, laboriously won from the luxuriant grassland, rippling with the wave of corn. A Strange Story — Complete
  • So the reports flow in on Media Watch's snide little excoriation, laboriously trying to exploit the name and fame of my late father.
  • Slowly and laboriously the aircraft gained airspeed as the needle crept past stalling speed.
  • Unto the first of these, the considerations of the original of the soul, whether it be native or adventive, and how far it is exempted from laws of matter, and of the immortality thereof, and many other points, do appertain: which have been not more laboriously inquired than variously reported; so as the travail therein taken seemeth to have been rather in a maze than in a way. The Advancement of Learning
  • The bits are laboriously overegged, overlong and oversold. Times, Sunday Times
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