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curiously

/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs.li/ adverb B1
  1. In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively. · The children peeped curiously into the attic room.
  2. Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way. · Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.
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He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
The Jungle Book, p. 14 · B2
Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 328 · C1
As Dorothy entered they looked at her curiously, and one of them whispered:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 67 · B2
Dorothy looked at him curiously.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 113 · B2

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