owlishly

Examples

• All

• Banion looked owlishly into the lens through his collegiate tortoiseshell eyeglasses.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "Going someplace?" Runs In Light started, grasping his darts, looking owlishly up at the jagged gray rocks above.

  Fiction book (1990)

• She then lowered her hands and looked at her nephew owlishly.

  Fiction book (1998)

• He blinked owlishly at Adam.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Ruth blinked owlishly.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Anderson perched on a chair, peering owlishly at Roux through his thick-lensed glasses.

  Fiction book (1994)

• " Brought up short by this gentle rebuke, Peregrine blinked owlishly at Adam from behind his spectacles, then drew a determined breath.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Sinklar shook his head, running fingers anxiously through his mop of unruly black hair as he blinked owlishly at his image in the mirror.

  Fiction book (1992)

• She looked up at him owlishly over her glasses, her plump face framed in coils of gray.

• Billy stared owlishly at the skinny limbs and tried to decide if the other was really there.

Antonyms

R

recklessly

29 4.6

In a way that shows no care about danger or the results

C

carelessly

16 1.0

In a way that you do something without thinking or paying attention

How Owlish

owlishly

1 9.1

watchfully

1 3.2

wisely

100 2.3

solemnly

• Formal

56 4.2

quietly

466 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology