Synonyms for toilsomely
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : toil-suhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɔɪl səm |
Top 10 synonyms for toilsomely
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for toilsomely
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