(a.) Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Judges, reviewing cases for release, have looked quizzical when the patients' active participation in a "law course" has been used as evidence of satisfactory progress.
(2) Although Tennant is best-known in the wider world for his quicksilver portrayal of the tenth Timelord in Doctor Who – and more recently, a quizzical detective in ITV's doomy thriller Broadchurch – his theatrical pedigree is impressive.
(3) Tom was unsuited to the home-improvement periodicals for which he wrote in the late 70s, but in 1980 his droll and quizzical reviews began to appear in New Music News, an underground rock weekly launched by Felix Dennis to fill the vacuum left by the strike-bound NME and Melody Maker.
(4) When I come into class with mud-caked hands I get some quizzical looks but things become clearer as we are learning to read and write instructions.
(5) To discern and anatomise the meaning of Englishness, you need outsiders, with their quizzical perspectives.
(6) Boris Johnson: how he has flip-flopped over Russia and Syria Read more “Instead we had the Boris circus-show: lots of table thumping beforehand about how he was going to deliver sanctions (‘Boris is no poodle,’ his spin doctors briefed, a little hysterically), followed by that familiar quizzical expression at the post-summit photocall when he had delivered precisely nothing.
(7) When the minister for the natural environment and fisheries, Richard Benyon , last week posted a picture on Facebook of himself bravely pulling up a ragwort plant while being watched by a quizzical cow, he probably thought the image of a true countryman being tough on weeds would go down well with the voters.
(8) Emerson, like other respectable citizens of Concord, was sceptical of enterprise so personal and quizzical, confiding to his journal that "Thoreau wants a little ambition in his mixture ...
(9) Referencing was operationalized as looks directed toward the mother following a look to the rabbit, accompanied by quizzical facial or vocal expressions.
(10) She nods, raises a quizzical eyebrow and stomps off.
(11) Emma Payne, headteacher at St Mary Redcliffe primary in Bristol , is gazing quizzically at a wooden shed that stands just behind her school kitchen.
(12) He shrugs, and on his face is the sort of slightly quizzical expression that Uncle Bryn might use when confronted with the limitless mysteries of the universe.
(13) Outside her native Australia, Gina Rinehart's name is likely to be met with quizzical looks – but all that could be about to change, because the 57-year-old from Western Australia is on track to become the world's richest woman.
(14) repeated a quizzical Finn and a couple from Texas, rolling the name around their mouths like that of a particularly obscure Qin dynasty philosopher.
(15) More quizzically, there are a couple of cushions on a sofa bearing images of fluffy "Westies" – West Highland terriers like her first dog Buddy.
(16) His quizzical style made him a good interrogator; if a subject said something stupid he would simply repeat it deadpan, perhaps raising an eyebrow.
(17) A porcelain model of a laughing pig is staked quizzically on a poll by the drive.
(18) The trailer for the film – featuring only quizzical grunts and alarmed cries from Paddington rather than Firth's drily plummy tones – was recently released, and features the bear fresh from darkest Peru trying to understand bathrooms and the London Underground system.
(19) He was wonderfully quick-witted, funny, several steps ahead in exact and ironic understanding of any matter being talked about; but he was equally and happily prone to a dawdling, quizzical slowness.
(20) It is a theatrically cluttered space full of her varied knickknacks, including cushions embroidered with images of her beloved dogs , a DVD of a BBC docudrama on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and, quizzically, a book titled The Married Kama Sutra.
Whimsical
Definition:
(a.) Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish.
(a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(2) Photograph: Rachel King Doing a whimsical self-promotional piece for a weekend culture supplement We would never joke about doing a whimsical self-promotional piece for a weekend culture supplement.
(3) Here, it’s easy to make yourself comfortable in the sweet, slightly whimsical bedrooms that open onto a serene, tree-filled courtyard.
(4) There's still touches of the old, more whimsical comedian, though, not to mention a one-woman play about the Mitford sisters' love for sexy Nazis.
(5) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
(6) But with the support of Tony Whitby, the controller of Radio 4, Bob Robinson played a significant and influential part in accelerating Today's transformation from a whimsical magazine into a news and current affairs programme.
(7) A great read, and a delightful puzzle, but as the contradictory and whimsical interpretations of the rabbis show, hardly a reliable basis for justifying real-world land grabs.
(8) Find out about the great films they’re showing ...” On Monday, as Fox and Leadsom painted a vision of UK trade slightly more lo-tech and whimsical than the chocolate biscuit mill in Bagpuss, Corbyn’s only media comment was a tweet: “@LabourFilmFest is coming to the North West for the 1st time.
(9) More whimsical stuff for county blog regulars here in the north-east, where Darren Pattinson has been the central figure of the morning session.
(10) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
(11) In between, he has offered whimsical, slightly vaudevillian comic sagas of sex and drugs in Notting Hill (then a bohemian enclave of high hippydom) with titles such as The Saga of Peaches Melba and the Hash Officer, and Hector the Dope-Sniffing Hound .
(12) This highly energetic picture isn't for everyone – but if you like your whimsical magical realism done up in an antic, extra-crafty style, this may just win your heart.
(13) It limits evaluation to mere tendencies, formulated in such vague terms as "complete remission," "partial remission," and "treatment failure," in a disease whose natural history is sometimes so whimsical that the same clinical case, over a period of years, can be both a success and a failure of the same treatment.
(14) He was himself an artist in his spare time, and his whimsical creations included a man with three penises (Portnoy's Triple Complaint) carved from a tree trunk.
(15) He converted whatever his feelings were into the whimsical, quasi-romantic banter that eventually made its way into the Alice books.
(16) I still have mine at home.” Ranieri’s simulated alarm call was no less whimsical to Italian ears three decades ago than it is to English ones today.
(17) This article presents a whimsical overview of how a father can participate in this most important relationship through supporting and assisting the mother and developing comforting skills for the infant.
(18) The north-south divide always brings out the whimsical Tolkien in southerners.
(19) He goes after its baffling, mellifluous names – Smintheus, Agyieus, Platanistius, Theoxenius – his pencil languidly scratches, in a whimsical mock-invocation of Apollo from 1975.
(20) Music has always been the principal inspiration for Morris's work, and the variety in this season is reflected at one extreme by A Wooden Tree, Morris's response to the whimsical fantasy of Scottish poet Ivor Cutler, and Socrates, his marvellously poetic dialogue with the austere music of Eric Satie's score.