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quizzical
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quiz·zi·cal  (kwz-kl)
adj.
1. Suggesting puzzlement; questioning.
2. Teasing; mocking: "His face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air" (Lawrence Durrell).
3. Eccentric; odd.
quizzi·cali·ty (-kl-t) n.
quizzi·cal·ly adv.
quizzical [ˈkwɪzɪkəl]
adj
questioning and mocking or supercilious a quizzical look
quizzicality  n
quizzically  adv
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Adj.1.quizzical - playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)quizzical - playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell
teasing, mocking
playful - full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"
2.quizzical - perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"
questioning
perplexed - full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world"
quizzical
adjective mocking, questioning, inquiring, curious, arch, teasing, bantering, sardonic, derisive, supercilious He gave Robin a mildly quizzical glare.
Translations
quizzical [ˈkwɪzɪkəl] ADJ [glance] → burlón, socarrón
quizzical [ˈkwɪzɪkəl] adj [look, glance, smile] → narquois(e)
quizzical
adj
(= knowing, shrewd) air, look → fragend; smile → zweifelnd; face → wissend, gewitzt
(= odd) → eigenartig, drollig
quizzical [ˈkwɪzɪk/əl] adj (glance) → interrogativo/a (e beffardo/a)
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said my wife, as she breezed into the lounge, humorous quizzicality hopping over the lovely turquoise of her eyes.
IT WAS a high-reaching sky, wispy and bright by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Indeed, audiences at the Whitechapel Art Gallery initially have little else to go on, experiencing a considerable interlude of rebuffed quizzicality on first entering the galleries, followed by the realization that Rondinone's cryptic installation is aimed less at the mind than at the nervous system.
Ugo Rondinone: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London by Herbert, Martin / Artforum International
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