searchingly

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searchingly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Searching \Search"ing\, a.
     Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as,
     a searching discourse; a searching eye. "Piercing, searching,
     biting, cold." --Dickens.
     [1913 Webster] -- Search"ing*ly, adv. -- Search"ing*ness,
     n.
     [1913 Webster]

searchingly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  searchingly
      adv 1: in a searching manner; "`Are you really happy with him,'
             asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"