searching
adjective
examining carefully or thoroughly.
searchingness
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a word derived from
searching.
Example Sentences
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In the set of a jaw or the searchingness of a squint you could make out the parched rangeland or the old copper pit or the vanishing farm jobs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
All those artists shared “a vulnerability, and rawness and searchingness that is starting to produce really interesting art,” she added.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
DeMarco’s music is exceedingly pleasant, but it’s often saturated with a jaunty sort of sadness — of love lost, aging, general searchingness.
From Salon ● May 7, 2017
He eyed them carelessly enough to all appearance, yet with an inward searchingness which seemed to find what it feared.
From A Prince of Sinners by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
I am button-holed at every corner, and put through a cross-examination, to which Holt's or Bingham's had no searchingness: "How did Mrs. Suratt die?"
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
