searchingly

comparative more searchingly · superlative most searchingly

1. In a searching manner.

   He stared at me searchingly, trying to determine if I was lying.

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   Away to the left along a side track his eyes travelled searchingly, as they came to a gate.

   1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 50

   'Hey, what's that?' he exclaimed gruffly, staring searchingly at her as he took her hand.

   1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 48