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searchingly

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search·ing  (sûrchng)
adj.
1. Examining closely or thoroughly; probing: a searching investigation of their past dealings.
2. Keenly observant: searching insights.
searching·ly adv.
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Adv.1.searchingly - in a searching manner; "`Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"
Translations
searchingly [ˈsɜːtʃɪŋlɪ] ADV [look, ask] → inquisitivamente
searchingly
adv look → prüfend, forschend


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When I came up, he touched my shoulder and looked searchingly down into my face for several seconds.
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It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon when Adam came in sight of the grey town on the hill-side and looked searchingly towards the green valley below, for the first glimpse of the old thatched roof near the ugly red mill.
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He took a worn photograph from his pocket and looked at it long and searchingly, and when he put it away he sighed.
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