carefully

adv

1. (obsolete)Sorrowfully.

   “[…] there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne […]”

2. With care; attentively, circumspectly.

   “As he was a politician, he discussed all subjects carefully, not offending anyone.”

   “He carefully studied the papers, while planning his next move.”

   “He carefully avoided the subject all evening.”

   “Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.”

3. Conscientiously, painstakingly, fastidiously, meticulously