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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Laboriously.

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Examples

  • I always laborously hand- slice the rind in strips.

    January recipe: Seville orange marmalade Carla 2007

  • And the interviewer does not assist, she feeds me a few key questions and then listens, even as I once overrun her to finish a laborously train of thought.

    Searching for something Torill 2006

  • And the interviewer does not assist, she feeds me a few key questions and then listens, even as I once overrun her to finish a laborously train of thought.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Torill 2006

  • One rainy afternoon Cory came running to me with an orange paper snail he'd laborously worked on the entire morning, and half of the afternoon.

    Flowers In The Attic Andrews, V. C. 1979

  • I can see my older brothers in their tow-shirts that fell knee-length which was sometimes their only garment, toiling laborously under a cruel lash as the burning sun beamed down upon their backs.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • Some weeks later it happened that Uncle Thomas, while paying us a flying visit, produced from his pocket a copy of the latest weekly, Psyche: a Journal of the Unseen; and proceeded laborously to rid himself of much incomprehensible humour, apparently at our expense.

    The Golden Age 1915

  • Journal of the Unseen; and proceeded laborously to rid himself of much incomprehensible humour, apparently at our expense.

    The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • One rainy afternoon Cory came running to me with an orange paper snail he’d laborously worked on the entire morning, and half of the afternoon.

    Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979

  • One rainy afternoon Cory came running to me with an orange paper snail he’d laborously worked on the entire morning, and half of the afternoon.

    Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979

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