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quizzicality
noun
The state or condition of being quizzical.
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She published two books of poetry and started work on a memoir, studied Norwegian, and regarded her new compatriots with a warm and gentle quizzicality.
Clement has none of the overconfidence of the Playboy Mansion screen persona he sometimes affects, and all of the quizzicality of his more usual persona.
There are high cheekbones; the widely spaced eyes, capable of shooting out serious or comic rays; the left eyebrow, always slightly higher than the right, lending her a subtle quizzicality... Her diction was enchanting: clear, even though it moved between sly Southernisms and Park Avenue lockjaw.
At the centre of it all is Martin Freeman, whose default expression of habitual bafflement (he appears to teeter perpetually on the brink of some conversational incline) is perfectly suited to the role of Bilbo Baggins – the friendly quizzicality hiding something behind the smile as he begins to comprehend both the powers and dangers of the ring.
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