effortfully

English

Etymology

effortful +‎ -ly

Adverb

effortfully (comparative more effortfully, superlative most effortfully)

  1. 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, chapter 12, in Lucky Jim:
      They made their way effortfully towards the Carthaginians […] ”
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