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Recent Examples of quizzically
From lambs with quizzically cocked eyebrows, to lambs whose wooly coats are made of flower petals, to lambs that simply defy description.
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Deena Prichep,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically.
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Anika Reed,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Daedone looked at me quizzically.
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Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
Mills looked at her quizzically.
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Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Deena Prichep,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically.
—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Daedone looked at me quizzically.
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Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
Mills looked at her quizzically.
—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quizzically
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Jones asked his players incredulously.
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Kizzi adds to his act by pretending to be a devoted fan while V looks on incredulously.
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Espinoza responded, holding up his hands questioningly.
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Bundhorol motioned to the direction of camp questioningly, then in the opposite direction, out into the empty grass.
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The many attending assistants around her eventually disperse — a little hesitantly because Sam is in the middle of preparing a new show — and the two withdraw to Sam’s cavernous studio.
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Only the bravest walked hesitantly toward the well.
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In the meantime, the rest of the Minions have found a new boss, a suspiciously humanoid robot alien named Dort (Jesse Eisenberg), in a surreal plot twist that puts a bit of a strain on what little story there already is.
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Yet in recent weeks, Taylor has been out and about, suspiciously carefree.
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As reflected in an email thread used in the Watson case, Valentine reacted skeptically in 2019 when a colleague told her a particular hospital wanted to exit its contract with Mead Johnson.
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The threat to actually suspend State Farm’s license and its authority to write policies has been viewed skeptically by some, given its roughly 20% market share of the state’s home insurance market.
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But in this case, the story is very doubtfully true.
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“Quizzically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quizzically. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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