Meaning of uncomprehendedly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. With a lack of comprehension.
   uncommon
2. In a manner that is not comprehended.
   rare

Examples

“At 12.55, Marsh and Pearce, accompanied by a driver, horse, and buggy, left Oakville. A mile outside in the heart of the storm Pearce faltered a second. Marsh dropped into the road beside him. “Better quit it,” he advised. Pearce, his face livid with the fierce pounding of the storm, stared at him uncomprehendedly a second. Then his numbed senses gathered the import of the advice.”

““Pardon me,” said a gentle voice at his elbow, “but I’m afraid you’ve lost something?” […] / “Madam?” the gray man spoke uncomprehendedly. / “You have lost something, haven’t you?””

““Tail shaft gone?” cried the captain. / “Like a carrot,” was the second mate’s answer. / He was a man of slow wits in all things unconnected with his trade, and he stared uncomprehendedly at the skipper’s laugh.”

“When given her bill at the end of the day’s ride by the driver who felt that he had a mighty queer customer in the rear seat, she looked at it uncomprehendedly, he told the authorities. “Don’t you have any money,” he is reported to have asked her.”

“The prison cavalcade drew to a halt at Randolph, about half way to the state farm here. Pomeroy was taken out of the car. He seemed unconcerned as a guard led hmi^([sic]) to a confectionery store nearby. “What’ll you have to drink, grandpa?” the guard asked. “Grandpa,” Pomeroy’s nom de plume when writing poetry for the Charleston prison magazine, pushed his grap cap back on his head and glanced uncomprehendedly at the guard.”

“In an adjoining room Mooney’s 84-year-old mother, in the care of her daughter, Anna, waited uncomprehendedly the reading of the decision that once again blasted her son’s hopes for exoneration and freedom.”

“What would they show? So far Lucile had looked at them uncomprehendedly, but surely she was bound to guess before long. […] “It was about here that you dropped your suitcase, was it?” / No good. It was all over. The invalid looked at him uncomprehendedly. He wanted to get away.”

“African Evangelist Frances Adego had just preached a message of salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ to villagers in Soroti, Uganda. When the people did not respond, he pled with them to accept Jesus. They only stared at him uncomprehendedly.”

“[…] I looked in the mirror to confirm I was awake, standing up and still existed. […] I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face. It wasn’t there. Shock. Trauma. Fright.”

“Diana watched, smiling. “Ah, dot makes me a leetle da hot. Now, da udder vay.” We looked uncomprehendedly at her. “Dummkopf! Da udder vay. He licks on your dinkalink.””

“The Anglo audience was sitting stunned, literally with open jaws, totally astounded, uncomprehending. Americans did not get the abstract passion of the play. The salsa, by Tito Puente, Puerto Rico flags flying alone. The Puerto Ricans letting out cries of pride and joy at these expressions of Puertorriqueñísimo. The Anglos were withdrawn uncomprehendedly with their racism.”

“I remember fondly an old Czech girlfriend who visited France with me and who at the end of the evening looked at me aghast, uncomprehendedly, saying “How could you talk about food for 5 hours? How?” Yes, for the Czechs this would seem incredible but it wasn’t because of food that we boistrously^([sic]) blurted out our beliefs. It was due to the IDEA of food.”

“On a day like today / seeing a young cow / tethered / in an urban lane / my heart cracks open / and a tear falls / soundlessly / uncomprehendedly / and washes my soul”

“When she received an A on the first midterm, she stared at it uncomprehendedly, and then exclaimed “This is a mistake!””

“Practically the whole race is in a frenzied excitement over what prophecy long since announced and what history uncomprehendedly recorded.”

“Laforgue zealously reads his Scriptures, talks fervently but uncomprehendedly, and becomes prey to yearnings of the flesh as he watches Daniel and Annuka falling in love and coupling with the reluctant consent of Chomina.”

“Thus even the institutional medium of Corporations(cf. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, pr.252, 253, 244) in the ethical life of the society in this regard can be said to be designed to ensure that complex far-flung economic factors would not uncomprehendedly sway over people’s activities and lives in order not to limit their freedom and activity in their vocational field of interest […]”

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