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comparative more effortfully, superlative most effortfully
In an effortful manner: with effort. quotations examples
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