Painstakingly
Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists
This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Word Usage
"Nin painstakingly copied into her diary her worst review, from among many bad reviews, by Elizabeth Hardwick, no less, who declared ‘no writer I can think of has more passionately embraced thin air’ and described her work as ‘vague, dreamy, mercilessly pretentious’."
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