testingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]testingly (comparative more testingly, superlative most testingly)
- In a tentative and experimental manner.
- 1994, Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate, The Best Intentions:
- I have lived as a spoiled child and you have lived as an exposed child, and now those children are looking testingly at each other.
- 1997, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Jo Riley, The show and the gaze of theatre: a European perspective:
- At the same time she lifts her left leg testingly in a kind of skip or dance step, before exiting quietly stage right.
- In a challenging manner; so as to test the stamina, patience, etc.
- 2005, Thom Burnett, Conspiracy Encyclopedia:
- ...whether the exercises took place in recognized military training areas or in territory testingly unfamiliar to the troops.