Crossword clues for inquisitively
inquisitively
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inquisitively \In*quis"i*tive*ly\, adv. In an inquisitive manner.
The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively
apply himself to the study of physic.
--Boyle.
Wiktionary
adv. In an inquisitive manner; curiously.
WordNet
adv. with curiosity; "the baby looked around curiously" [syn: curiously, interrogatively]
Usage examples of "inquisitively".
Billy was surrounded by male and female ancipitals, creaghs and gillots and runts, glaring up at him inquisitively.
Reacher, who had pivoted and dropped into guard to face the second swine just before Van Duyn had fired, gazed from the dead quarry to its slayer in calm curiosity, head tilted inquisitively.
She was gazing inquisitively after the receding vehicle, holding Sylva fast behind her.
The mares with suckling foals at their sides moved away at the sight of him, but the long-legged weanlings stood their ground, inquisitively watching his approach.
Thus adjured, the old man peered up at Theos inquisitively, wiping away the tears that coughing had brought into his eyes, and after a minute or two began also to laugh in a smothered, chuckling way,--a laugh that resembled the croaking of frogs in a marshy pool.
There were reedbucks with horns pricked forward inquisitively and tails like white powder puffs, zebras at a distance looking not striped but a uniform gray color, wildebeests with Roman noses and scraggly beards chasing each other in mindless circles like clowns, stirring the black ash in a cloud around themselves.
The stickman raised his eyebrows and looked inquisitively at Tony, who shook his head.
She glanced at Torkel inquisitively and with just a tad of something Yana took to be-well, not hostility, but suspicion.
DEVENISH throws his felt hat on to the table and walks about inquisitively.
Mrs Hushabye, watching her inquisitively, goes deliberately back to the sofa and resumes her seat beside her.
Like young monkeys, apes, or humans, they poked and pried inquisitively at anything that seemed pokable or priable.
As he watched, it extended a host of pseudopodia which burrowed inquisitively into the nearby foundations.
Even if they did not scratch up the corn, and peck the strawberries, and eat the tomatoes, it is not pleasant to see them straddling about in their jerky, high-stepping, speculative manner, picking inquisitively here and there.
The floating globes and sinuosities moved inward inquisitively, jogging and jostling each other.