Meanings
- not comparableIn a snooping manner.
[…] I saunter snoopingly into his summer lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
2001, Vivien Marx, The Semen Book, page 892 more examples
PARSON enters from L., goes to door of clubhouse and knocks. No answer. Knocks again. No answer. Knocks a third time. No answer. Tries door, but it is locked. Looks around snoopingly and listens for sounds of rolling dice, but hears none.
1921, Jeff Branen, The African Golf Club: A Blackface Farce, page 12I hid my own purchases for several days, no mean trick in a school where every drawer and cupboard was inspected, openly and snoopingly too, at least twice a week.
1983, M. F. K. Fisher, As They Were, page 34
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