pointingly

comparative more pointingly · superlative most pointingly

1. In a manner that points out or indicates.

   “You mean - there?' I inquired, stretching my arm pointingly over the edge of the car.

   1899 May, Neil Wynn Williams, “The Tale of the American Volunteer”, in The Strand Magazine, volume 17, number 100, page 418

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   "And if I hear anyone going up the stairs or coming down,” James pointingly looked at Ember and Derek, “You'll be locked in the tool shed.”

   2012, Amanda Wiparina, Forbidden, page 93

   When the suspect is the theme, her associates are pointingly referred to by the theme, but the street, felt time, and fatigue are not pointingly referred to.

   2015, Lester Embree, The Schutzian Theory of the Cultural Sciences, page 116

2. datedSynonym of pointedly.

   The motion should be denied on the ground that the statements in the moving papers are irrelevant, immaterial and pointingly degrading.

   1942, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs

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   Gill objects to my (?) method of distinguishing between the larger and smaller zoogeographical divisions, and pointingly submits that "The question may naturally recur, why the line which separates 'regions' from 'sub- regions' should be drawn between 35 and 46 per cent. rather than between 46 and 63 or 64 per cent., or even between 64 and 78 per cent.

   1884, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

   The relation of the perception to the reality is, therefore, directly opposed to the relation of the will to the reality: The will pointingly produces realities, the perception pointingly subordinates itself to realities.

   1942, Francè Veber, There is a God, page 27

   Synonyms: pointedly