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I found this sentence in a book:

> いかにもついでに掘ったような細い道を無視し、放置されたライトが多くぶら下がってる方向を選んだり、と自分なりに工夫しながら進む

I think I kind of understand it: something like "Ignoring the narrow dug
paths, I chose the direction in which many abandoned lights hung, and
proceeded while devising my own way", but I'm not sure about what いかにもついでに and
ような means in this context.

I think those two parts, いかにもついでに and ような, are not linked in a single form. As
for いかにもついでに, I know the single words いかにも and ついでに, but I'm not really sure
about what they mean in this case.

For context, the character is trying to find her way to the surface, and after
finding a service tunnel and opening it by thawing some ice, there is not sign
she dug any passage; there is not much added by the text, as far as I
understand, since one chapter ended with the character entering the tunnel,
and the next started with:

> 右、右、左、上、左ちょっと下って、また上へ。
>
> 迷路のような入り組んだトンネルを私は黙々と進んでいく。

followed by the sentence I'm unsure about.

All in all, my guess is:

  * the paths in questions aren't dug by the character, but they are already there
  * いかにも is linked to 無視, meaning she is _completely_ ignoring those paths; or maybe is linked to ついでに掘った, reinforcing it
  * ついでに is linked to 掘った, and adds a sense like those paths were dug incidentally, while digging the main path
  * ような means "ignoring the path _that looked like_ they were dug incidentally", so is how the character perceives them, rather than an objective fact

but I'm not really sure.
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meaning words parsing
Meaning of いかにもついでに~ような
You are pretty close.

This いかにも is defined in
[Wiktionary](https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%84%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AB%E3%82%82)
as:

> **見えたり感じられたり** するさまを **強調** する。 **推量や様態、比喩の明確化** 。まさしく、みるからに（そのようだ）。

It should be easier to tease out a better sense of its usage with my
highlighted keywords. Namely, this usage stresses that how something
looks/sounds/smells to you or how you perceive something is true/just like
that. If you look it up in a Japanese-English dictionary, you'll probably only
get "truly", "really", but I think with just that the actual usage eludes you.

The important thing here is this usage of いかにも latches onto a word that
describes perception, making the perception more concrete, and affirmatively
reinforcing that perception.

> あいつっていかにも優しそうだな！  
>  That guy _does_ **seem** nice!

> いかにもロスらしい雰囲気  
>  _very_ L.A.- **ish** ambience

It's very perceptive of you to use the word "reinforce". Good job. Your second
guess is a good one. いかにも adverbially modifies ついでに掘ったような細い道: "what appear to
be incidentally dug narrow paths" or "seemingly incidentally dug narrow
paths".

> いかにもついでに掘ったような細い道  
>  narrow paths that truly look like they were incidentally dug
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You should parse it this way.

> ［いかにも［ついでに掘った］ような］［細い道］

ついでに indeed modifies 掘った. Digging those narrow paths was (apparently) not the
main purpose of whoever dug them. I have never known how to accurately
translate ついでに. I am not sure if "incidentally" conveys its nuances
completely.

ついでに掘った細い道 would mean that the speaker knows for a fact that the paths were
dug in such a manner.

ような indicates that it is the speaker's perception that the paths are such.

いかにも further adds the sense that that perception is obvious from the
appearance of the paths.

So the character ignored narrow paths that obviously looked like they had been
dug only as secondary purposes of whoever dug all those tunnels.
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