painstakingly

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Scrabble points
23
Words With Friends
27
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/

Definition of painstakingly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
    “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.”
    “With the help of a friend from Zagreb, he found a map showing the locations of all the monuments and painstakingly sought them out, discovering while doing so that most of the thousands of Spomeniks had been deliberately destroyed.”

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Etymology

From painstaking + -ly.

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