Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inquisitive manner; with curiosity to obtain information; with scrutiny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inquisitive manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
inquisitive manner;curiously .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with curiosity
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Examples
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For a few seconds, I started getting antsy too, but instead of getting flustered, I looked around inquisitively -- surely, I thought to myself, something going on was creating the snarled and inert traffic.
Toan Lam: Slow Your Roll: Think Twice Before You Yell, Honk or Lose It! Toan Lam 2011
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On Saturday, though, the wide-eyed baby looked around the ward inquisitively and became captivated with a journalist who was taking his picture.
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Donovan looked at Jane inquisitively, a bemused grin on his round, ruddy Irish face.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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For a few seconds, I started getting antsy too, but instead of getting flustered, I looked around inquisitively -- surely, I thought to myself, something going on was creating the snarled and inert traffic.
Toan Lam: Slow Your Roll: Think Twice Before You Yell, Honk or Lose It! Toan Lam 2011
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They concealed this knowledge from their children with talk of recipes and feigned anguish at every toy dropped inquisitively down the toilet.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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They concealed this knowledge from their children with talk of recipes and feigned anguish at every toy dropped inquisitively down the toilet.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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Surprised he stopped sobbing and looked at her inquisitively.
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Passersby looked inquisitively as three of us picked, what looked to most as 'weeds,' and that is often stomped on with blind eyes.
Garrett Weber-Gale: Being #1 Requires More than Just Good Food Garrett Weber-Gale 2011
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Donovan looked at Jane inquisitively, a bemused grin on his round, ruddy Irish face.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The Scotsman's face lighted inquisitively, till he comprehended.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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