[
UK
/kwˈɪzɪkəl/
]
[ US /ˈkwɪzəkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɪzəkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)
he had a quizzical expression -
playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)
his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air
How To Use quizzical In A Sentence
- Often this is met with a quizzical expression and a demand for me to explain what I am asking them.
- I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
- At the best of times, science leaves me with a quizzical expression on my face and a less than articulate ‘eh?’
- He continued in a quizzical tone.
- Holden looked at me quizzically, but did not enquire further. ANTI-ICE
- On his face is the most comical, quizzical expression, which is probably exactly how most of us would look if stuffed.
- And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
- They saw simply a loose, lank youth with tow-colored sunburned hair and a berry-brown, ingenuous face that wore a quizzical, good-natured smile.
- he looked at her, not wrathfully now, but quizzically
- The team shot quizzical glances at their new addition but made no move to get rid of him.
