Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With consideration or deliberation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With consideration or deliberation.

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  • adverb in a manner suggesting one is considering, pensively

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Examples

  • 'Paris,' Katherine turned over the delightful word consideringly, finding it wanting.

    Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

  • Then she looked at Valery consideringly but said nothing.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • Ian looked consideringly at his own offspring, industriously engaged in piling wooden blocks on top of each other by the hearth.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Cerdic was eyeing her consideringly, ice-blue gaze fixed on her face.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • He stood up, looked down at me consideringly for a moment, then walked around the table, extended his hand, and drew me to my feet.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • "Your mother, too, faced a ghost today, and over came it," Rachel said consideringly.

    Dearly Beloved 2010

  • Cerdic was eyeing her consideringly, ice-blue gaze fixed on her face.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Cerdic was eyeing her consideringly, ice-blue gaze fixed on her face.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Connie said consideringly, You will be more unhappy if you do not.

    The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

  • Daniel gazed consideringly into his half-empty glass:

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

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