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effortfully

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Etymology

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From effortful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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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[1]:
      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 []