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[ adverb ] in a speculative manner

Synonyms

with_speculation

Examples

"he looked at her speculatively"

Used in print

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

She looked at the girl speculatively from eyes which had paled with the years ; from the early evening lights of them which had first startled Izaak to look at her in an uncousinly way , they had faded to a near absence of color which had , possibly from her constant looking_at the water , something of the light of the sea in them .

Related terms

inquisitive inquisitive

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