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- adverb Alternative spelling of
laboredly .
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Examples
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He ended with a sob, and when next he spoke it was more labouredly, as though that sob had robbed him of the half of what vitality remained.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912
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At once from the older boy came the sounds of one who breathes labouredly in deep sleep after a hard day.
The Seeker Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Front-vixen Aja Volkman pranced awkwardly across the stage without a trace of the mystery surrounding her Steely Dan namesake, her raven-hair and labouredly edgy style looking more at home as one of the Veronicas.
PopMatters 2009
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