DOUBTFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doubtfully mean? 

• DOUBTFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb DOUBTFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a doubtful manner

  Familiarity information: DOUBTFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBTFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a doubtful manner

Synonyms:

doubtfully; dubiously

Context example:

Gerald shook his head doubtfully

Pertainym:

doubtful (fraught with uncertainty or doubt)

 Context examples 

Mr. Dick looked doubtfully at me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As you do us such ample justice now, said Emma, laughing, I will venture to ask, whether you did not come a little doubtfully at first?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“I know men club them,” I said, trying to reassure myself, and gazing doubtfully at a large bull, not thirty feet away, upreared on his fore-flippers and regarding me intently.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Dame Eliza looked doubtfully at him, as though fearing some other stratagem, but, as he made no demand for ale, she finally brought the paints, and watched him as he smeared on his background, talking the while about the folk round the fire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mind you don't, said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she loosened her hold of me; then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Ye-yes, I should say they were, on the whole, resigned to it,” said Traddles, doubtfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It is a waltz, I think,” Miss Larkins doubtfully observes, when I present myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Would you like me to do it, Mr. Barkis?” said I, doubtfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The man peered doubtfully into the basket, plunged in his hand and drew one up, wriggling, by the back of the neck.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"We'll take a look," he said doubtfully, "just a look."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)