sedulously

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Sedulously coddled is the only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sedulously dodging large functions, sticking closely to the golf course, the Candidate did find time to drop in at the local firehouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sedulously, he had once avoided the clusters of boys who haunted the locker rooms with their salient, knowledgeable talk in which his finely honed sense of morality denied him participation.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Sedulously he bent over her; the warm breath reassured him; tired nature had simply succumbed.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Sedulously keeping that tell-tale sleeve out of sight, Curtis took the lead, and opened the door, which Marcelle closed and locked.

From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Tracy, Louis