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