Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Scrutinizingly.

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Examples

  • She still kept her hand in his and looked at him examiningly; while his chief consciousness was that her eyes were piercing and her face so mobile that the next moment she might look like a different person.

    Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

  • Then deliberately laying aside his hat and showing a head thickly covered, with white hair, he stroked and clutched his beard while he looked examiningly at the young face before him.

    Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

  • He held the book close on his lap with his hand on it and looked examiningly at Deronda, over whom there came the disagreeable idea, that possibly this striking personage wanted to see how much could be got out of a customer's ignorance of prices.

    Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

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