curiously
/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/ adverb B1- In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively. · The children peeped curiously into the attic room.
- Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way. · Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.
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Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
As Dorothy entered they looked at her curiously, and one of them whispered:
Dorothy looked at him curiously.
Her sad, appealing eyes travelled from one to the other of us with a curiously inquisitive expression.
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