adverb
- In a fastidious and painstaking manner.
- usage: "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling"
- synonyms: painstakingly
- In a fastidious manner.
- usage: "he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative"
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