painstakingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From painstaking + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]painstakingly (comparative more painstakingly, superlative most painstakingly)
- In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
- 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 314:
- I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.
Translations
[edit]in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully
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