SEARCHINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does searchingly mean? 

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

1. in a searching manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEARCHINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a searching manner

Context example:

'Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly

Pertainym:

searching (having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect)

 Context examples 

She withdrew herself from his arms, sat upright, and looked at him long and searchingly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thus engaged, he appeared, sitting in his own recess, quiet and absorbed enough; but that blue eye of his had a habit of leaving the outlandish- looking grammar, and wandering over, and sometimes fixing upon us, his fellow-students, with a curious intensity of observation: if caught, it would be instantly withdrawn; yet ever and anon, it returned searchingly to our table.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He lay in dull despair, while she watched him searchingly, pondering again upon unsummoned and wayward thoughts of marriage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin looked at him searchingly for a moment, then cried: By God, I think you're right! Better a hobo than a beast of toil. Why, man, you'll live. And that's more than you ever did before.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me and continued: I looked outdoors for a minute and it's very romantic outdoors.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)