Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a searching manner;
- Example: "`Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Searching \Search"ing\, a.
Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as,
a searching discourse; a searching eye. "Piercing, searching,
biting, cold." --Dickens.
[1913 Webster] -- Search"ing*ly, adv. -- Search"ing*ness,
n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
searchingly
adv 1: in a searching manner; "`Are you really happy with him,'
asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"