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musingly

ADVERB
  1. in a reflective manner
    `It's funny about that bar,' he said musingly

How To Use musingly In A Sentence

  • The language is amusingly flowery and the overall tone one of purposeful pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • "It must be my irresistible charm, " I muttered to myself amusingly.
  • Origin: The phrase, popularized by the unwatchable movie 21, apparently derives from the rich lexicon of craps, which is full of amusingly inscrutable patter. Deadspin
  • Other people's holiday snaps can be dull, but other people's family photos, if captioned amusingly, can be quite fun.
  • In his piece about Awana, he writes amusingly about taking a pee and I couldn't help but recall the moment when the great man, he of pulchritudinous prose, goitred with soliped leitmotifs, crenellation and spittle, took one next to mee. AA . . . On The Piss
  • Swanberg plays an amusingly hatable character with a smug disregard for indie flicks.
  • Bertrand repeated the phrase musingly as if questioning with himself how much it might mean. The Rocks of Valpre
  • Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days
  • She soothed the impatience of the hand on her cheek, and, almost absently, musingly scrutinizing it without consciously seeing it, turned it over and slowly kissed the palm. CHAPTER XXVII
  • ‘We were only in the Valley for a day and a half,’ he said musingly.
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