searchingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

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adv

"He stared at me searchingly, trying to determine if I was lying."
"Away to the left along a side track his eyes travelled searchingly, as they came to a gate."
"'Hey, what's that?' he exclaimed gruffly, staring searchingly at her as he took her hand."

Etymology tree English searching Middle English -ly English -ly English searchingly From searching + -ly.

more searchingly (comparative) most searchingly (superlative)

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