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SUSPICIOUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With suspicion
Example:
she regarded the food suspiciously
Classified under:
Pertainym:
suspicious (openly distrustful and unwilling to confide)
Context examples:
That he should never have been able to indulge so amiable a feeling before, passed suspiciously through Emma's brain; but still, if it were a falsehood, it was a pleasant one, and pleasantly handled.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Some of the more observant of the crowd had glanced suspiciously at this advancing figure, but the majority had not observed him at all until he reined up his horse upon a knoll which overlooked the amphitheatre, and in a stentorian voice announced that he represented the Custos rotulorum of His Majesty’s county of Sussex, that he proclaimed this assembly to be gathered together for an illegal purpose, and that he was commissioned to disperse it by force, if necessary.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Weedon Scott looked at him suspiciously.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Very gently and somewhat suspiciously, he first smelled the tallow and then proceeded to eat it.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He bristled suspiciously, but the master warned him that all was well.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
White Fang endured it, keeping his eyes fixed suspiciously, not upon the man that patted him, but upon the man that stood in the doorway.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
White Fang pricked his ears and investigated it suspiciously, managing to look at the same time both at the meat and the god, alert for any overt act, his body tense and ready to spring away at the first sign of hostility.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Some dim impulse moved the policeman to look suspiciously at Tom.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away. Wondering if he were sick I went over to find out—an unfamiliar butler with a villainous face squinted at me suspiciously from the door.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
