painstakingly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English painstaking Middle English -ly English -ly English painstakingly From painstaking + -ly.

1. In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.

   “I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.”

   “With the help of a friend from Zagreb, he found a map showing the locations of all the monuments and painstakingly sought them out, discovering while doing so that most of the thousands of Spomeniks had been deliberately destroyed.”