effortfully

English

Etymology

effortful +‎ -ly

Adverb

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 […] ”