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Grammar : Adv
Spell : luh-bawr-ee-uhs, -bohr-
Phonetic Transcription : ləˈbɔr i əs, -ˈboʊr-

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Définition of laboriously

Origin :
  • early 15c., "with difficulty, laboriously, slowly," from laborious + -ly (2). Meaning "earnestly, strongly" is from c.1500.
  • adv strenuously
  • adv diligently
Example sentences :
  • The parson had seated himself by the stove, and was laboriously removing his arctics.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • He measured these round his waist, and then began to stitch them together, slowly and laboriously.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • He laboriously made out a document, which Banker as laboriously signed.
  • Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
  • He found the ladder and laboriously dragged it beneath the window.
  • Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • His dress has been laboriously genteel, but is torn and soiled.
  • Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
  • Nor was he enamoured of any reputation, the essentials of which he had not laboriously achieved.
  • Extract from : « Agesilaus » by Xenophon
  • They have not to spell out temperaments slowly and laboriously.
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • "Tell us," said Phyllis laboriously, "about diploma——" and there it stuck.
  • Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 » by Various
  • No matter—Cloud did not solve them laboriously, one factor at a time.
  • Extract from : « The Vortex Blaster » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • His beginnings had been as laboriously difficult as those of my father.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

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