The Collaborative International Dictionary
Searching \Search"ing\, a.
Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as,
a searching discourse; a searching eye. ``Piercing,
searching, biting, cold.''
--Dickens.
[1913 Webster] -- Search"ing*ly, adv. -- Search"ing*ness,
n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a searching manner.
WordNet
adv. in a searching manner; "`Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"
Usage examples of "searchingly".
The young doctor eyed her searchingly but did not question her decision, and on November 3 she was transferred with Melia, Polly, and four of the others to the Lady Penrhyn, the bunks they had occupied broken up, in order to make room for thirty Cape ewes.
But some how or other, those bright eyes of Bernardine, which looked at her so searchingly, made her a little nervous, and, perhaps, a little indiscreet.
Heads turned searchingly and the busy buzz and hum of conversation from the three-deep railside racegoers grew hushed and finally silent as they took in the appalling, unbelievable, indisputable fact that what remained of Art Mathews lay face downward on the bright green turf.
You see how searchingly and co-ordinately interdependent and anthropomorphous it all is.
Mel looked searchingly at Mary Catherine's face for a moment and figured it out.
Fisher gave a high-pitched cackle, a sound that made Forbin look searchingly at his chief assistant.
At times he paused to rest his aching muscles, and, shaking the sweat out of his eyes, twisted his head to stare searchingly out over the jungle, combing the green expanse for any trace of human life or motion.
While maintaining an outwardly dubious expression—a plus-point testifying to good judgment and control—Kelm's eyes had been flickering over Zeigler searchingly, as if probing for validity indicators.