Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With due scrutiny or observation; searchingly. Also spelled
scrutinisingly .
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- adverb So as to
scrutinize ; with close visual attention.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sheldon Rampton scrutinizingly details fiction in this post.
Think Progress » ABC’s 9/11 Docudrama Mangles Facts, Smears Washington Post 2006
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We none of us, I suppose (by we I mean the bonne, the cook, the portress, and myself, all which personages were now gathered in the small and heated chamber), looked very scrutinizingly at the new doctor when he came into the room.
Villette 2003
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Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke she noticed with fear and joy that he gazed attentively and scrutinizingly at her.
War and Peace 2003
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I noticed at the same time that she was pregnant; it did not escape my attention, and yet I did not stare in any way scrutinizingly at her.
Hunger 2003
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He stepped a little to one side as he spoke, and his eyes wandered scrutinizingly over Faith's lovely face and figure.
For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Lurana W. Sheldon
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The keen-eyed superintendent looked over her scrutinizingly.
For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Lurana W. Sheldon
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The Governor, surprised as much by the purity of language as by the temerity of the Jew, looked at the young man, scrutinizingly, for some moments.
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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The old deacon pushed his spectacles high upon his forehead, and, throwing his head back, looked at Hetty a moment, scrutinizingly, in silence.
Hetty's Strange History Anonymous
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I looked at it as scrutinizingly as I usually do at such paper.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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The man Clark looked at me scrutinizingly for some time.
Cord and Creese James De Mille
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