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View definitions for laboriously

laboriously

adverb as in strenuously

adverb as in diligently

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Example Sentences

Hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”

He would laboriously make his way from desk to loo, belt down a few, then return.

An “overproduced, overblown, confusingly dark and laboriously ambitious jumble,” ruled Newsday.

He came up laboriously—the more laboriously by virtue of his very efforts to show himself still nimble in his mistress's eyes.

He came back warily, forgetting his English accent, which he had laboriously imitated in admiration of a certain vaudeville hero.

I had always been accustomed to pause and very laboriously to kill every fish as I took it.

Laboriously enough, we pushed on for three days travel, a daily ascent and descent of 3000 feet marking our progress.

But nothing more was visible, and he turned back to the trail to see Uncle Billy laboriously climbing up the slope.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to laboriously, such as: arduously, energetically, hard, painfully, resolutely, and tiresomely.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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