strenuous
She exerted herself a little too strenuously when playing hockey.
Women who exercise strenuously may produce less milk.
We strenuously oppose this war.
Yesterday he strenuously defended his controversial action.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Effort and expending energy
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assiduous
assiduously
assiduousness
be running on emptyidiom
burn
effort
effortful
effortfully
elbow grease
fight
hamster wheel
kill
perseverance
plough
plough through something
push
put something in/put something into something
rearguard action
swing

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Strong feelings

Examples of strenuously

strenuously
This is a question which many syllabus planners and teachers have strenuously avoided asking.
What is to surround the finished human being as an object, has to be acquired and wooed strenuously by him while he is still developing.
Such requests were strenuously resisted by ministers on the grounds that such actions would break confidences and would release secret information vital to state security.
A dictionary should be simple, professional, and strenuously scientific.
Was the drive to expand output pushed too strenuously?
I will not argue too strenuously in support of the endogeneity of voting rules.
The people themselves strenuously did what they could to avoid the levies.
None of these declarations, highly romanticizing in their effect, is subjected to the kind of critical scrutiny that is strenuously advocated elsewhere in the book, with damaging consequences.
Apparently emboldened by the part they played in rolling back fuel price increases adopted in early 1999, in response to a severe macroeconomic crisis, they have strenuously resisted regulatory controls.
A few legislators objected strenuously.
We would not object so strenuously to the adaptationist programme if its invocation, in any particular case, could lead in principle to its rejection for want of evidence.
Furthermore, in many cases, even close neighbors just don't like each other, and would object most strenuously to being identified as sharing common interests or values.
Divines and natural philosophers strenuously debated the natural, supernatural, and material causation at work here: advocates of divine right were advocates of the divinity of this gift.
Since it involves deliberate wastage of air (with a resultant lack of penetration), the singer has to hold support muscles strenuously to sustain long legato spans.
Both argued strenuously against remands on these grounds.
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