protractedly
advEtymology From protracted + -ly.
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In a protracted manner
- (Book ads increasingly include “Also available as an audiobook,” which audio publishers, protractedly battling the belief that listeners are readers’ intellectual inferiors, consider a breakthrough.)2007 January 4, Andrew Adam Newman, “Catch the Next Chapter on Your iPod (It’s Even Cheaper)”, in New York Times:
- Synonyms
- abidingly, at length, enduringly