painstakingly

From painstaking +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/

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painstakingly (comparative more painstakingly, superlative most painstakingly)

1. In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
   • 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 314:

     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.

   • 2013 June 18, Joshua Surtees, “Spomeniks: the second world war memorials that look like alien art”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 February 2018:

     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.