effortfully
English
Etymology
effortful + -ly
Adverb
effortfully (comparative more effortfully, superlative most effortfully)
- In an effortful manner: with effort.
- 2008 March 21, Alastair Macaulay, “New to the Glossary: A Pas de Multimedia”, in New York Times:
- When Mr. Wheeldon quotes Balanchine, it is those lifts in which the ballerina has her hands placed, effortfully, on her partner’s […] .
- 1953, Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1953), ch. 12.
- They made their way effortfully towards the Carthaginians […] ”
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