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arduously

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ar·du·ous  (ärj-s)
adj.
1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult: "the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language" (Thomas Macaulay).
2. Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous: a long, arduous, and exhausting war.
3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount. See Synonyms at burdensome, hard.

[From Latin arduus, high, steep.]

ardu·ous·ly adv.
ardu·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.arduously - in an arduous manner; "they worked arduously"
Translations
arduously [ˈɑːdjʊəslɪ] ADV [work] → arduamente; [climb] → con dificultad, penosamente
arduously [ˈɑːdjʊəslɪ] adva fatica, con difficoltà


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They were singing discordantly, arduously, and with great effort, evidently not because they wished to sing, but because they wanted to show they were drunk and on a spree.
From the beginning of time Nature has labored arduously toward the consummation of this purpose.
The small chirruping voice that uttered this request came from a little sunny-haired girl between three and four, who, seated on a high chair at the end of the ironing table, was arduously clutching the handle of a miniature iron with her tiny fat fist, and ironing rags with an assiduity that required her to put her little red tongue out as far as anatomy would allow.
 
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