Meaning of snoopingly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a snooping manner.

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Examples

“PARSON enters from L., goes to door of clubhouse and knocks. No answer. Knocks again. No answer. Knocks a third time. No answer. Tries door, but it is locked. Looks around snoopingly and listens for sounds of rolling dice, but hears none.”

“I hid my own purchases for several days, no mean trick in a school where every drawer and cupboard was inspected, openly and snoopingly too, at least twice a week.”

“[…] I saunter snoopingly into his summer lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.”

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