quizzically

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They would look quizzically, and then be like, "High five!"

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  1. In a quizzical or bantering manner; with playful slyness. “Look here,” said one of them, quizzically, “Ogden, have you lived all your life in every house in Crofield and in Mertonville and everywhere?” St. Nicholas, XVII. 611.

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  • They would look quizzically, and then be like, "High five!" —  Jacqueline Novogratz on escaping poverty
  • I just sort of look at them quizzically, as if I'm not sure I should believe my own ears, and just nod. that our new and well-intentioned but ill-conceived 30,000-year-old 'civilization' culture is on its last legs and will soon collapse in a particularly unpleasant manner, —  How to Save the World
  • The Saudi looked at him quizzically, the sailors looked like they were near tears, so far from Indiana, so far from the ship.
  • McKay is looking at him quizzically, and for a second John's afraid he's missed helpful completely and has instead landed hugely off-target somewhere in the vicinity of deranged. —  doggdot.us
  • But I forget"--quizzically--"you don't read newspapers, do you, even when they contain accounts of your own greatness I wonder if I deserve that? —  Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
 

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