Both Uses of
tentative
in
Crime and Punishment
- Then she began tentatively questioning him about the scene on the previous day with Luzhin, hesitating and continually glancing at Dounia, obviously to the latter's annoyance.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- Confess, now, that it has been perhaps your own fault?" he added, with a tentative smile, as though still afraid of irritating him.†
Chpt 3.3 *
Definitions:
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(tentative as in: said it tentatively) done in a careful or unsure way (indicating a lack of confidence in exactly what will happen)
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(tentative as in: a tentative plan) subject to change (likely or possibly going to change)