quizzical

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" His reply was a quizzical look, and "??

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Quick take

playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell

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adjective

playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell

adjective

perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for quizzical.

adjective

playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell

adjective

perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"

Example sentences

" His reply was a quizzical look, and "??

Looks to me that it was an expression of \n'quizzical sarcasm' in the form of a question.

I've been saying "put a hole in your GUI and get back to basics" for a decade now to quizzical looks.

I always get a quizzical look when I tell people I'm from India and they ask me why my English is so good?

Did you truly not get that or were you just asking the question to illicit a quizzical response?

It took the guy by surprise to the extent he stopped with a quizzical look and said "you were ready for that, weren't you?".

When my friends asked me what I intended to do with it, I got quizzical looks when I said that I was repaying my education.

For anyone else feeling quizzical, Pale Blue Dot is the name of a photograph of earth taken by voyager in which the earth is nothing but a pale blue dot.

My only reaction to someone who takes pride in his or her race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation is quizzical indifference.

I envy you, I envy you.” He stopped abruptly, and then on his lips formed one of his strange quizzical smiles, as he added: “It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart.

Well, I think what Carl Sagan was getting at was that, while indeed all our problems and strife are virtually zero in comparison to the awe and majesty of the universe that surrounds us, since this pale blue dot is all we have, we should strive to improve our lot as much as we possibly can. So you really couldn't have missed the point more than you did. I'm not sure those quizzical looks mean what you think.

Even the Internet Draft seems quizzical about why the extension would exist, and it more or less says "you'd use this if your TLS needed to be compatible with the DoD".PS: It's been a few months since I looked, but interesting to note: the mailing list discussions about extended_random_value were also skeptical about the intention behind the extension.