studiously
/ˈstjuːdɪəsli
/adverb
1With concentration and conscientiousness in one’s work or reading: he gets on with his work quietly and studiously a little girl bent studiously over an exercise book...
- Mary was studiously reading by the window.
- Over the last year he has been studiously researching the Viking saga upon which his character is based.
- Many authors have been studiously writing, examining how these traumatic events have changed the world.
2In a very deliberate manner; with a purpose in mind: she studiously avoided his gaze the newspapers studiously ignored the story the décor is studiously neutral...
- He glanced at Lil, who was studiously looking elsewhere.
- The second half, led by Brando, was serious, surly, studiously indifferent to giving pleasure or generating affection.
- Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress.
- chamber-master
- chamber-mate
- chamber music
- chamber musician
- Chamber of Commerce
- Chamber of Deputies
- chamber of horrors
- Chamber of Trade
- chamber opera
- chamber orchestra
- chamber organ
- chamber pitch
- chamber pop
- chamber pot
- chamber practice
- chamber process
- chamber-ridden
- chamber set
- Chambers, Sir William
- chamber storey
- Chambers, Whittaker
- Chambertin
- chamber tomb
- chamber utensil
- chamber vessel