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Definition of Pryingly
1. Adverb. In a curious and prying manner. "`Do you have a boyfriend,' she asked her prospective tenant pryingly"
Definition of Pryingly
1. adv. In a prying manner.
Definition of Pryingly
1. Adverb. In a prying manner. ¹
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Definition of Pryingly
1. pry [adv] - See also: pry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pryingly
Literary usage of Pryingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"... alienate those nearest to them, such as faults in table manners, neglect of
toilet, soiled attire, objectionable noises in presence of others, pryingly ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1836)
"... of the wishes and sentiments of the German Diet, whose spirit animates every
censor—a control which even in the free Hanse Towns is pryingly exercised. ..."
3. Wau-bun: The "early Day" in the North-west by John H. Kinzie (1901)
"He had a pistol in his hand, which he rested on the side of the boat, while, with
a fearful scowl, he looked pryingly around. Black Jim, one of the servants ..."
4. Wau-bun: The "early Day" in the North-west by John H. Kinzie (1901)
"He had a pistol in his hand, which he rested on the side of the boat, while, with
a fearful scowl, he looked pryingly around. Black Jim, one of the servants ..."
5. The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott (1883)
"Look pryingly or curiously. In prose on would not be used with pry. 786. In life's
more low but happier way. The MS. has " In lowly life's more happy way. ..."
6. Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates by Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett (1918)
"Gissing's work fell in a period when, as Mr. Bernard Shaw has pointed out, the
man with thirty shillings a week was so pryingly curious about the man with ..."
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