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Antonyms for toilsomely

Grammar : Adv
Spell : toil-suhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɔɪl səm

Definition of toilsomely

Origin :
  • 1580s, from toil + -some (1). An earlier word was toilous (early 15c.). The opposite, toilless (c.1600) is much less common.
  • As in hard : adv with difficulty
Example sentences :
  • By ladders now, and toilsomely, for it was steep, and not too certain holding for the feet.
  • Extract from : « The Chimes » by Charles Dickens
  • The type of beauty produced is charming by its negligence and naïveté; it is not thought out with pains or toilsomely elaborated.
  • Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 » by John Addington Symonds
  • Toilsomely, and at cost of desperately hard marching and fighting, he had made himself master of the strategic position.
  • Extract from : « The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume I (of 2) » by George Cary Eggleston
  • Night fell while the travellers were toilsomely penetrating further into the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Extract from : « A Gentleman Player » by Robert Neilson Stephens
  • So thinks, at any rate, a horseman, toilsomely making his way over its inhospitable expanse.
  • Extract from : « Renshaw Fanning's Quest » by Bertram Mitford
  • After that a covered van, toilsomely dragged along by tired horses and guarded by armed slaves in livery.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 » by Various
  • There is no steep slope corresponding to that which we have ascended so toilsomely, only a gentle incline towards the Zambesi.
  • Extract from : « Stanley in Africa » by James P. Boyd
  • But she rowed back with the old brown dory almost as empty as when she had rowed it toilsomely out to her traps.
  • Extract from : « Judith Lynn » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • Frederick toilsomely clambered up to the promenade deck and crept into the overcrowded smoking-room.
  • Extract from : « Atlantis » by Gerhart Hauptmann
  • At our feet is the Little American Valley, in which is the road, up the eastern portion of which we have so toilsomely climbed.
  • Extract from : « The Lake of the Sky » by George Wharton James

Synonyms for toilsomely

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