Crossword clues for blankly
blankly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blankly \Blank"ly\, adv.
In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.
--G. Eliot.Directly; flatly; point blank.
--De Quincey.
Wiktionary
adv. in a blank manner, especially showing no emotion or expression
WordNet
adv. in a blank manner; "she stared at him blankly" [syn: without expression]
Usage examples of "blankly".
And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.
No longer protected by anthropocentric gods and goddesses, reason gone flat in its happy capacity to explain away the Mystery, not yet delivered into the hands of the superconsciouswe stare out blankly into that dark and gloomy night, which will very shortly swallow us up as surely as it once spat us forth.
The runt he had addressed turned on him a wizened, monkeyish face in which pale blue eyes regarded him blankly.
When I came up to the table her blue eyes were focused blankly on the distant palis, and it took her a moment to reorient herself.
She turned, and Cerryl watched blankly as Pattera scurried back down the alley, the shawl over her nightdress flapping as her bare feet padded on the stones.
Henley approached the steps Pitman and his wife, hearing the click of the gate-latch, came out on the porch, which was shaded by overhanging vines, and stood staring blankly at him.
In a little pub far to the north of the river, Journeyman Sorcerer Lord John Quetzal stared blankly at a mug of beer that he had no intention of drinking.
The shrimpers looked blankly at both Tee Bobby and Legion, confused, unable to connect the indignation of the towering white man with a diminutive black musician who only a moment ago had been an object of contempt.
Gusterson sourly asserted, staring blankly at the tankless TV and kicking it lightly as he passed on.
Their perfectly round glass eyes as dead and black as those of great white sharks, the cranial components of violently demised ungulates gazed blankly at each other from opposing walls.
His eyes, empty, devoid of their innate, Unhuman evil, stared blankly at her.
I ran across the soggy green to Warg, who stared at me blankly when I implored him to come and take the penalty.
Blankly surveys the canary expanse of laminated cabinetry while it boils.
Quickly she left the room and closed the door be-hind her, leaving Cassandra to stare blankly at her father.
He hung spread-eagled and imbedded in the fiberfill insulation like a fly in amber, staring blankly at the floor.