listening
/ˈlɪs.nɪŋ/ adjective C2- Of something or someone that listens. · Any listening person can tell she's lying.
- Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. · He could hear better when he used his listening device.
- Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.
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“Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so extremely—” Just then she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on, “—likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while finishing the game.”
The Antipathies, I think—” (she was rather glad there _was_ no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) “—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.
de Villefort, so as to prevent his listening to what you said.
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I _think_; or is it twelve?
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