What is "arduously"

Usage examples of "arduously".

When we find, as in the case of Mozart, a prodigiously gifted and arduously trained musician who is also, by a happy accident, a dramatist comparable to Moliere, the obligation to compose operas in versified numbers not only does not embarrass him, but actually saves him trouble and thought.

The fort had been built sturdily, the lower wall of dressed stone quarried far up the Oconee River and ferried arduously down at great cost.

Gensel, made his appearance, and the new carrier-load of pollywogs arduously and ridiculously became shellbacks at the hands of those who only eight months ago, en route from Pearl to the Marshalls with Air Group Ten, had undergone the same ordeal.

And under the German trenches at several points were vast charges of explosives which had been patiently borne under ground through arduously made tunnels.

As I said, in many cases their hearts are in the right place, but their theoriesbecause they are empirical and monological, because they are weakest-noodle sciences, because they deal with exteriors than can be seen and not interiors that must be arduously interpretedbecause of all that, they end up with a truly insidious form of reductionism, insidious because they are almost completely unaware of what they have done.

The small chirruping voice that uttered this request came from a little sunny-haired girl between three and four, who, seated on a high chair at the end of the ironing table, was arduously clutching the handle of a miniature iron with her tiny fat fist, and ironing rags with an assiduity that required her to put her little red tongue out as far as anatomy would allow.