inconclusively

comparative more inconclusively · superlative most inconclusively

1. In an inconclusive manner.

   All the segments chewed over their ideas yet tended to end inconclusively, sometimes in midthought, as if they had reached the end of productive interaction with that particular line of inquiry.

   2007 February 15, Anne Midgette, “A New Work for Cello, Played Upon a Veteran”, in New York Times

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   This is fully and quickly intelligible, but what it says is that the process of turning out to be a friend began, not with a set of properties that inconclusively indicated friendhood, but with a set that in fact inconclusively indicated unfriendliness.

   1993, John McCumber, The Company of Words