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Quizzical   /kwˈɪzəkəl/   Listen
Quizzical

adjective
1.
Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule).  Synonyms: mocking, teasing.
2.
Perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know).  Synonym: questioning.






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"Quizzical" Quotes from Famous Books



... Halloway said anything that might have been construed as a compliment to the girl and he disarmed it of too great significance with a quizzical smile. ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck

... Virginia lifted quizzical eyebrows. "Ought to! That tastes of duty. Don't let it come to that. We'll take it off if you like." She touched the solitaire he ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine

... was not an escort to be despised, as Ruth soon discovered. She very quickly felt a sort of family pride in his cool, quizzical manner and caustic repartee, that was wholly distinct from the more girlish admiration of his distinguished person. He and Ruth were great friends in a ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf

... a quizzical glance upon the younger scientist, who blushed a fiery red, rapidly set up another integral, then also leaned back in his place, while his face burned deeper ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith

... met mine so completely as well-nigh to daze me with their glory. There was a quizzical uplift in ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin


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