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Penetratingly   Listen
adverb
Penetratingly  adv.  In a penetrating manner.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Penetratingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... silence with suspicion. He cocked his eye penetratingly upon his librarian. "But it is very queer, J.M., that as long as I have known you, I never heard that you had any family ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield

... country; and I am still somewhat embarrassed to own that after New York (even under the relaxing rule of Tammany) Boston seemed very dirty when we arrived there. At best I was never more than a naturalized Bostonian; but it used to give me great pleasure—so penetratingly does the place qualify even the sojourning Westerner—to think of the defect of New York in the virtue that is next to godliness; and now I had to hang my head for shame at the mortifying contrast of the Boston streets to the well-swept ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Penetratingly" :   penetrating, penetratively



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