It is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research. From Dictionary.com.
The man grimaces, but he signs his name painstakingly, gripping the stand. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
She read the titles painstakingly: "Corn in California," "Silage. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
You follow each and every word painstakingly, like watching grass grow. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
BLITZER: Light teams are back at work for what's being called a painstakingly hard search for the missing aviator, Steve Fossett. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2007] Reference
I like the way my tongue goes over "painstakingly", doing it very carefully, like I'm doing tongue tip-toeing. From Wordnik.com. [Saving the World by Saving My Words] Reference
Being able to see it up close provides a view into the kind of painstakingly detailed work that not even the best binoculars could pick up. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Then the keratin smoothing complex is painstakingly applied. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy for Keratin] Reference
Would he have spent 85 hours painstakingly pushing the process forward?. From Wordnik.com. [An October Surprise] Reference
But intelligence agencies painstakingly track them down, one by one, hoping. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda: Alive And Killing] Reference
As a stand-alone service, AOL had to painstakingly develop an arcade of features. From Wordnik.com. [Surfers, Step Right Up!] Reference
But Mueck's painstakingly detailed "Mask" intends to make exactly the opposite point. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: Less Is Mueck] Reference
When you want to hear different tunes, you must go back to the computer and painstakingly reload. From Wordnik.com. [Mac Music] Reference
Here's a visual to highlight the point, painstakingly detailed, the result of years in art school. From Wordnik.com. [Andy McDonald: Facebook Recommends Me Things] Reference
The picture is a mosaic of smaller images, painstakingly assembled by Cassini's imaging scientists. From Wordnik.com. [SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: From Galileo to Cassini -- 400 Years of Saturn's Rings] Reference
Inch by inch, foot by foot, we painstakingly made our way to the entrance of Moqtada al-Sadr's alley. From Wordnik.com. [Euphoria And Fear] Reference
As the series painstakingly shows, the Europeans brought slavery, oppression and decimating diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Rediscovering America] Reference
Sullivan deconstructs why people hate gays, painstakingly siphoning the steam from the heated arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Words] Reference
Forensic experts detailed how they spent months painstakingly photographing, testing and comparing prints. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Smut and Fingerprints] Reference
That's how you come of age in Hollywood, painstakingly negotiating your sexuality with an army of handlers. From Wordnik.com. [Girl Power] Reference
But she painstakingly counted out coins as I stood frozen, eyes glued to the ground, face turning deep red. From Wordnik.com. [A Painful Discovery] Reference
Faced with international pressure for political reform, Saudi Arabia is painstakingly inching towards change. From Wordnik.com. ['Democracy Is Not Objectionable'] Reference
They know that a weakened Western resolve will mean that the gains made so painstakingly will vanish swiftly. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Give Up on Afghanistan] Reference
AOL still makes you painstakingly close every window that pops open; Microsoft automates the process for you. From Wordnik.com. [Can 8.0 Save The Chat Room?] Reference
Customs agents-the frontline troops in this espionage war-must painstakingly unravel the incriminating paper trail. From Wordnik.com. [Techno-Smuggling] Reference
Complicating matters was the fact that some of her painstakingly qualified prose was reduced to flashy sound bites. From Wordnik.com. [Social Networking and Class Warfare] Reference
It also has four dizzyingly sumptuous French period rooms, painstakingly re-created by New York designer Thierry Despont. From Wordnik.com. [Another Tale Of Two Cities] Reference
With a dental pick and brush she painstakingly cleaned away the 3.75 million-year-old, hardened volcanic ash that encased the print. From Wordnik.com. [Witness To The Creation] Reference
Flanked by jumpy guards, a NEWSWEEK reporter was recently given a rare glimpse of the timepieces being painstakingly restored by Sankov. From Wordnik.com. [Time, Lost And Found] Reference
Gates leaves at a challenging time for Microsoft, but this is the final step in a painstakingly planned process that began four years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Microsoft After Gates. (And Bill After Microsoft.)] Reference
Czanne plods from one modest bowl of apples or landscape of Mont Sainte-Victoire to another, painstakingly building each picture stroke by stroke. From Wordnik.com. [A World Of Apples] Reference
It was a bizarre impulse under the circumstances, but perfectly in keeping with the public persona Simpson had painstakingly constructed throughout his life. From Wordnik.com. [Day & Night] Reference
When Wu presented a draft accord on Sept. 16 -- the fifth the Chinese team had painstakingly drawn up -- the U.S. reaction was typical: we can't accept this. From Wordnik.com. [NORTH KOREA HOLD 'EM] Reference
And the act of slowly, painstakingly working my way through the music one bar at a time is the best way I've found yet to understand how the song is put together. From Wordnik.com. [Instant Education] Reference
Boomer tourists are thrilled that Lennon's and McCartney's childhood homes are now in the hands of the National Trust, painstakingly restored to mid-20th-century dowdiness. From Wordnik.com. [Magical History Tour] Reference
Instead, officials are painstakingly attempting to re-create the flight's descent, hoping to find answers in the critical minutes before the plane -- and its secrets -- were lost. From Wordnik.com. [A Descent Into The Depths] Reference
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