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/spˈɛkjʊlətˌɪvli/
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ADVERB
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with speculation; in a speculative manner
he looked at her speculatively
How To Use speculatively In A Sentence
- Unlike other recruitment agencies we don't send CVs off speculatively or without your permission.
- In their detachment and mobility, these characters personify the movements and uses of capital as they enter speculatively into representations of different cultures.
- Laborers, barred in large measure from the chance to work on speculatively held land, would either go to the city and become a class of urban poor, or move to hitherto submarginal plots of land and settle on them.
- It was Rupert's decision that swayed the others; I could still see-with a feeling of grim satisfaction-the look on Dougal's face when his squat, black-bearded lieutenant eyed me speculatively, then patted the dags at his belt and said, "Aye, lass, why not? Sick Cycle Carousel
- More speculatively, one can see how to build applications that are literally "composited" together out of piece parts, if something like UNIX pipes can be arranged. Planet GNOME
- He eyed Mr. Chadber speculatively, holding a pinch of snuff to one thin nostril The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
- She eyed It'speculatively as a cruel smile appeared on her black lips.
- **********This anonymous tweeter took it upon themselves to test the elastic limits of privacy and libel law by speculatively naming those who've allegedly joined the super-injunction club. Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
- I was interrupted by the hooting of a car, I turned trying to eye up the cars speculatively.
- Images of gauchos speculatively transformed into fishermen struck a wry note in an otherwise disturbing account of man's increasingly uneasy relationship with the planet.