STUDIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does studiously mean? 

• STUDIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb STUDIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a studious manner

  Familiarity information: STUDIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUDIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a studious manner

Context example:

she examined the data studiously

Pertainym:

studious (marked by care and effort)

 Context examples 

About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in, but they rose to give the Doctor good morning, and remained standing when they saw Mr. Wickfield and me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In general, his voice and manner were studiously calm.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In pleading, they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause; but are loud, violent, and tedious, in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Catherine did not hear enough of this speech to understand or be pained by it; and other subjects being studiously brought forward and supported by Henry, at the same time that a tray full of refreshments was introduced by his servant, the general was shortly restored to his complacency, and Catherine to all her usual ease of spirits.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Edmund watched the progress of her attention, and was amused and gratified by seeing how she gradually slackened in the needlework, which at the beginning seemed to occupy her totally: how it fell from her hand while she sat motionless over it, and at last, how the eyes which had appeared so studiously to avoid him throughout the day were turned and fixed on Crawford—fixed on him for minutes, fixed on him, in short, till the attraction drew Crawford's upon her, and the book was closed, and the charm was broken.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I pondered on those words, even while I was studiously attending to what followed, as if they had some particular interest, or some strange application that I could not divine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His kindness in stepping forward to her relief, the manner, the silence in which it had passed, the little particulars of the circumstance, with the conviction soon forced on her by the noise he was studiously making with the child, that he meant to avoid hearing her thanks, and rather sought to testify that her conversation was the last of his wants, produced such a confusion of varying, but very painful agitation, as she could not recover from, till enabled by the entrance of Mary and the Miss Musgroves to make over her little patient to their cares, and leave the room.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)