Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: laboriously
IPA transcription: [ləb'ɔɹiəsli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: laboriously
    Meaning: in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"
Usage examples
  • Laboriously, he did as he was told to do.
  • He measured these round his waist, and then began to stitch them together, slowly and laboriously.
  • They were not long able, however, to enjoy the repose of the eminence they had so laboriously gained.
  • Who does not perceive how laughable it is to see a lady who is clothed in satin lace, or velvet, laboriously travelling in the dust or mud.
  • Cardlestone's face was in the shadow; Myerst had his back to the window; old Elphick bending over the table was laboriously writing with shaking fingers.
  • And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis....
  • The chirography was precisely that of the letter. While slowly convalescing, Arthur had prepared for this expected interview with Horace, by spending many a solitary hour in laboriously teaching himself to imitate Jackson's ordinary hand, in which most of the letters he had received from him were written.