attentively

comparative more attentively · superlative most attentively

1. In an attentive manner.

   'It's a very clean cut,' said the Rat, examining it again attentively.

   1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

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   When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC