INQUIRINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inquiringly mean? 

• INQUIRINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb INQUIRINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in an inquiring manner

  Familiarity information: INQUIRINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INQUIRINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an inquiring manner

Synonyms:

enquiringly; inquiringly

Context example:

Tom Swift looked at his cabin mates inquiringly

Pertainym:

inquiring (given to inquiry)

 Context examples 

"Well," said Mr. Rochester, gazing inquiringly into my eyes, "how is my Janet now?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was pale and trembling, but she held up and looked inquiringly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Maud looked at me inquiringly as I emerged.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I looked at her inquiringly; but already with a foreknowledge of her meaning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I looked at him inquiringly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)