单词 | painstakingly |
释义 | painstakinglyadv. In a painstaking manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb] > with care and effort peniblya1400 painfully1547 elaborately1724 painstakingly1854 1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 660/2 In spite of..assurances painstakingly gathered from all the weatherwise people in the town that to-morrow would be fine, we had both gone to bed dolefully prognosticating wet. a1861 A. H. Clough in N. Amer. Rev. (1865) Apr. 516 Setting himself laboriously and painstakingly to work. 1891 Sat. Rev. 19 Dec. 705/2 This little book has been painstakingly prepared. 1943 J. F. Steiner Behind Japanese Mask i. 9 They painstakingly made preparations during many years for their hour of surprise attack. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 290 It was Friday night and all the painstakingly observed customs and practices of the workday went out of the window. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1854 |
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