Wiktionary
adv. In a questioning manner.
WordNet
adv. in a curious and questioning manner; "they turned their heads questioningly, as if awaiting further instructions" [syn: wonderingly]
in a quizzical and questioning manner; "they looked quizzically at the doctor" [syn: quizzically]
Usage examples of "questioningly".
Miaree rose, accepted the packet, looked at Mother Aglee questioningly.
Girta nodded and raised an eyebrow questioningly, knowing full well that Eadyth often pursued her beekeeping jaunts when troubled.
At the middle pier, housing Herbst Pavilion and the Cowell Theater, Craig motioned to the right, then to the left, eyebrows raised questioningly.
I had no idea how it had ended up in a cabinet with refolded grocery bags, but when I looked questioningly at Dennis, he was backing away from the stench and returning to his breakfast.
Samsa, looking questioningly at the charwoman, although she would have investigated for herself, and the fact was obvious enough without investigation.
He insisted on buying the seats himself, and after some parleying and explaining at the box-office, he and his companion were duly escorted to seats immediately in front of a flower-decked platform, where they were set down amidst a highly select company of correctly attired folk, who glanced a little questioningly at their tweed suits, both conspicuous amidst silks, satins, broadcloths, and glazed linen.
Beauty chirped questioningly in her ear and then stroked her head against Menolly's cheek, the perfumed salve a sweetness in Menolly's nostrils.
Mrs Barron smiled again, and Jupe looked questioningly at Bob and then at Pete.
Niko Daun looked questioningly from the hovercraft to his commander, taut as the hammer spring of a cocked pistol.
He turned round questioningly as a hand tapped the hummocked outline below his white smock.
Three Hydrogen Bombs glanced questioningly at the faces of Bright Book Jacket and Hangs A Tale.
He would frequently point to one he had already identified, look questioningly at Reeve to see if he remembered.
Eadyth asked, tilting her head questioningly as Eirik laid the parrot feather in the palm of her hand.
Jeff came in once or twice from his search for Lulu, soaked to the bone, and when she gazed questioningly at him, he slowly shook his head.
Every now and then, Norma would look at her husband, not accusingly but merely questioningly, and there was the drag of fear, not in her eyes but around them-the eyes of a woman fighting a tension headache or perhaps low-back pain.