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- noun The state or condition of being
quizzical .
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Examples
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Also, I think “looked … quizzically” could probably be replaced with a verb that implies the quizzicalness.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge! 2009
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He joined cachinnations with me heartily, and with a twinkling quizzicalness that somehow gave me the idea that he might be thinking
Beasley's Christmas Party Booth Tarkington 1907
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They had climbed its rocky hill, they had viewed the Mahomet Ali mosque and its columns and its carpets and had taken their guide's and their guidebook's word that it was an inferior structure although so amazingly effective from below; they had looked studiously down upon the city and tried to distinguish its minarets and towers and ancient gates, they had viewed with proper quizzicalness the imprint in the stone parapet of the hoof of that blindfolded horse which the last of the
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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