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• r  in a laborious manner
  their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them

• One hundred and sixty hand-picked Chinese police began laboriously to learn the Japanese language.
• After his death in 1947, tax assessors laboriously counted their way through two large antique coffers full of gold pounds and two-sol quintos, reckoned the total at 30 million .
• Behind him, a blue-smocked boy and a white-smocked girl laboriously lit the 80 candles on a dove-dotted birth day cake bought by the children themselves.

News & Articles

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• Witcover: A Congress divided
  The Senate provided the country a rare and modest glimpse of bipartisanship in its 68-32 passage of the comprehensive immigration reform bill laboriously accomplished by the Gang of Eight - four Democrats and four Republicans.
  July 2, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record

Quotes

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• Vincent Clerc in International Herald Tribune
  We know the English. We know their qualities,Clerc said. "They started laboriously and then they pull out a match like that."