120 examples of quizzical in sentences

His own turned quizzical.

A hint of his quizzical, inscrutable smile was upon it as he answered.

" Marty's quizzical humor was not making J.W.'s enterprise any easier.

He looked at me with a queer, quizzical expression, and then laughed softly.

What is the betting, Mr. Copplestone?" I could not understand the quizzical little smile that Dawson gave me, nor the humorous twitch of his lips.

His voice was openly quizzical; he dodged a laughing backhander from Piers with a neat gesture of apology.

Dawson Bobbs leaned against the wide brick entrance of the livery-stable, his red face balled into shining convexities by a quizzical smile.

derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic^; scurrilous &c (disrespectful) 929.

" "How many shares do you own, Sandford?" asked Mr. Fayerweather, with a quizzical look.

He looked at her and at the porch and at his bundle of mail in a quizzical appeal.

Mr. de Laney," laughed the doctor, who had been watching him with quizzical eye.

Got a fall from my donkey this morning," he said, noticing a quizzical, interrogating look upon the face before him, "and fell squar' on the hat."

More especially"and a half-quizzical smile lit up his grave but kindly face as he turned toward Miss Moppet and gently pinched her little ear,"more especially as the gentleman has taken the law in his own hands and escaped from Wolcott Manor despite the fact that as it is the residence of a Continental officer and the sheriff of Litchfield County it might be supposed to have exceptional reasons for detaining him.

He glanced at me with a quizzical expression, and then smiled.

The tall, quizzical, rather grim old landlady of the neat little Hotel de la Garecharacteristic of that rugged France which tourists who only see a few streets in Paris know little aboutwas plainly puzzled.

" Observing a rather quizzical light in the eyes of Bard, he felt that he had probably been making a few missteps, and being warmed greatly at the heart by the whisky, he launched forth in a new phase of the conversation.

" The sergeant straightened himself slowly from the bench and looked at Courtenay, a quizzical smile dawning on his thin lips.

"Ah, Bonneton, my friend!" said Coquenil, and then, with a quizzical glance: "My decorative friend!"

When the baby Tyler was one year old Clint had walked over to where his wife sat, the child in her lap, and had tilted her head back, kissed her on the lips, and had gently pinched the boy's roseleaf cheek with a quizzical forefinger and thumb.

I don't know how to put it to make you realize" He caught a quizzical smile on her face, and after a moment of bewilderment he leaped from his chair and came toward her.

" He held up the board with a quizzical smile and I stared in astonishment at the chart.

But I would suggest, whether ostlers do not give their animals an extra quantity of oats on New Year's day, to make their action more stylish?" Mr. Overtop marked a quizzical expression in the widow's left eye, and was disgusted.

His eyes, however, had grown quizzical.

Dodd would strike his horse a sharp blow with a willow switch, turn half round in his saddle, and reply, with a quizzical smile, that we were "not most there yet, but would be soon!"an equivocal sort of consolation which did not inspire us with much enthusiasm.

"You didn't know it then?" rejoined the rector, with now an almost quizzical glance, in which hovered a little doubt.

120 examples of  quizzical  in sentences