with difficulty
Meaning
with difficulty
In a way that requires significant effort.
Cold butter is spreadable, but only with difficulty if the bread is soft.
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Examples
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
That is with difficulty preserved which all hanker after.
An opportunity is found with difficulty and easily lost.