estimate
verb (used with object)
to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately.
estimatingly
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a word derived from
estimate.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Sterne looked at him estimatingly, at the same time wadding up a newspaper clipping from the desk in front of him.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
In speechless expressiveness his eyes swept estimatingly over sun-parlors, stables, garages, Italian gardens, rapturous blue-shadowed mountain views—every last intimate detail of the mansion's wonderful equipment.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
