(adjective) involving or accomplished with careful perseverance / (adjective) diligent in application or pursuit
“Not necessarily. It isn’t hard to hide a drug habit if you’re sedulous about the protocols.”
sedulously kept apart from his colleagues
exhorted to overcome addiction through willpower and sedulous self-monitoring
my instinct is to think it means seductive or seditious but I'm training myself to remember it as careful
“MFA writing” is supposed to be sedulous, dutiful, and uninspired.
they cut out a lot of the sedulous stuff
on Harper's
From the kind of sedulous bibliomaniacal research to be expected of conscientious lawyers
these two they had sedulously avoided, in conformity with the old New York tradition that it was not “dignified” to force one’s self on the notice of one’s acquaintances in foreign countries
provoked by its sedulous silence
Insurrectionary Gordimer has given way to the the sedulously horrified Coetzee
still not comfortable enough to use it on my own but now I def know what it means
Press coverage of the industry was boosterish and sedulously uninvestigative, as journalists tended to embrace Google’s old “Don’t be evil” motto as a factual description of its aims