What is "doubtfully"

Usage examples of "doubtfully".

Of three salts of aluminium, one did not act, a second showed a trace of action, and the third acted slowly and doubtfully, so that their effects are nearly alike.

The Baptist stood his ground, eyeing the disheveled newcomer doubtfully.

From the crowd came mutters to the effect that there were worse things than setting tables and doing idiot dances for a living, but the men around the table, several of whom had sat there when Dungy was their chief, frowned doubtfully, as though wondering whether capturing this man would be worth the risk.

I looked up doubtfully, and there, sure enough, on the roof of the sepulchre, was a peculiarly unctuous and sooty mark, three feet or more across.

From time to time through the long wait Frain glanced doubtfully at Trevyn.

But downstairs is the charitable Guster, holding by the handrail of the kitchen stairs and warding off a fit, as yet doubtfully, the same having been induced by Mrs.

Eve gazed at the colored tablet doubtfully, as Mudd offered it to her.

Hand prodded doubtfully at the contents of the bento tray with his chopsticks.

God, dual steering oars and a square, brailed sail, he noted, shaking his head doubtfully.

The kobolds, Bunion and Parsnip, trailed after, gnarled bodies skittering along, wizened monkey faces grinning doubtfully, all teeth and sharp angles.

The Lancashire couple regarded him doubtfully, and we all shaped up to some greyish meat of undiscernible origin.

He looked her up and down, doubtfully, as if she were an unpedigreed horse at a sale.

He considered the attack from the perspective of those backstabs he knew from his experiences fighting men, but he looked at his puny dagger doubtfully.

Doubtfully they leased an apartment in an oldish building on the South Side, decent enough but depressingly inferior to their green and silver cottage in Kinnikinick, their canary-yellow flat in Des Moines.

At this, Sah-luma roused himself,--signing to his attendant he took the harp from him, and resting it lightly on one knee, passed his hands over it once or twice, half musingly, half doubtfully.