stockishly
- a word derived from stockish.
Example Sentences
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I stared stockishly at the girl, who passed with an indifferent face.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
This question rooted him stockishly in a cold and deadly fear as if he had seen a snake before him.
From Lady into Fox by Garnett, David
He looked at them, and they stood stockishly there.
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert
The class of man represented by Vernon Whitford in “The Egoist” says, indeed, the true thing, but he says it stockishly.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
