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  • adverb Alternative form of laboriously.

Etymologies

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labourious +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • This would be apparent by now if my hitherto rock solid iMac hadn't gone 16a at the point of uploading my labouriously compose profile plus, after following all your tips, an inventive avatar.

    Quick crossword No 12,696 2011

  • Beck said ... blogger word verification must LOVE you - if I screw up, I always get the Cyrllic alphabet to labouriously type out.

    Wandering Wednesay kittenpie 2007

  • The rag-tag "coalition" -- now just down to the handful of professional protesters -- walk in slowly and labouriously, one wearing the standard issue paper mache outfit, disrupting his event, and shouting out a few stunted heckles that, despite days of planning, manage neither to inform nor entertain.

    "The ultimate expression of free speech" - Ezra Levant 2008

  • It was a best-seller in the underground Samizdat system, where people took it on themselves to copy often labouriously by hand "subversive" or "counter-revolutionary" books to share with other intellectuals and interested parties at the time.

    "It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!" Ann Althouse 2008

  • The rag-tag "coalition" -- now just down to the handful of professional protesters -- walk in slowly and labouriously, one wearing the standard issue paper mache outfit, disrupting his event, and shouting out a few stunted heckles that, despite days of planning, manage neither to inform nor entertain.

    Ezra Levant: January 2008 Archives 2008

  • He had some transport, of course, enough to carry perhaps a quarter of the food, and those existing mules and wagons could come back for more, which meant the warehouse needed to be protected while its precious contents were labouriously moved closer to Lisbon.

    Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • He is commanded to forsake the world, that he may live in a sepulcher which he had been labouriously digging for himself through more than a hundred years.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Craftsmen, small merchants, husbandmen, cottars, and hardworking villeins from the villages and manors, they were better off with one of their own kind, aware of their needs and troubles, not stooping to them but climbing labouriously with them, elbow-to-elbow.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • Craftsmen, small merchants, husbandmen, cottars, and hardworking villeins from the villages and manors, they were better off with one of their own kind, aware of their needs and troubles, not stooping to them but climbing labouriously with them, elbow-to-elbow.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • By the time a few of the main highways were again passable, and a few travelers, either foolhardy or having no choice, were labouriously riding them, Brother Conradin had his scaffolding up, his ladders securely braced up the slope of the roof, and all hands taking their turn aloft in the withering cold, cautiously shifting the great burden of snow, to get at the fractured lead and broken slates.

    The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

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