question-marked

adjective

With a question mark.

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Meanings

adjectivequestion-marked (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWith a question mark.

    This Blake is, as might be expected, something out of a Bret Easton Ellis novel, complete with trust fund, magazine job, and a propensity to speak in quiet, question-marked sentences?

    2002 January 28, Elizabeth Frankenberger, “Sects and the City”, in Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau, the editors of Killing the Buddha, compilers, Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, published 2009, →ISBN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2011, page 90
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    Read through all the questions and: • Put a tick against those that you know you can answer reasonably well. […] • Put a question mark against the others. […] If you have not ticked enough questions to complete the paper, you will need to answer a mixture of ticked and ‘question-marked’ questions.

    1991, Richard Freeman, “[Assessment and exams] Tactics”, in Mastering Study Skills (Macmillan Master Series), 2nd edition, Basingstoke, Hants.; London: Macmillan Education Ltd, →ISBN, page 122

    The inciting event that led to the phone call was publication of Wakefield’s question-marked Lancet paper that tried to link vaccines with Crohn’s. Notwithstanding the holes in this comparison of incomparables, the dismissive commentary from FDA scientists, and that telltale “?” at the end of its title, two institutions, as trusted as the journal, also forgave its obvious deficiencies to bring it to the public’s attention.

    2020, Brian Deer, “Quests Collide”, in The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s War on Vaccines, Melbourne, Vic.; London: Scribe Publications, →ISBN

Origin

From question mark + -ed.

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