quizzical
adjective
odd, queer, or comical.
quizzicality
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a word derived from
quizzical.
Example Sentences
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She and Stone look back at me, bonded in quizzicality.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2018
She published two books of poetry and started work on a memoir, studied Norwegian, and regarded her new compatriots with a warm and gentle quizzicality.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
"Well?" she asked, with just a gleam of quizzicality in her eyes, for she knew whence he had come.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
The young man smiled with a pathetic quizzicality.
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
Zora, sitting on the arm of a chair, half steadying herself with her umbrella, regarded the old man standing respectfully at attention before her with a smile whose quizzicality she could not restrain.
From Septimus by William John Locke
