All 6 Uses of
inquisitive
in
Bleak House
- Rumour, always flying bat-like about Cook's Court and skimming in and out at everybody's windows, does say that Mrs. Snagsby is jealous and inquisitive and that Mr. Snagsby is sometimes worried out of house and home, and that if he had the spirit of a mouse he wouldn't stand it.†
Chpt 10-12
- I looked surprised and inquisitive.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Nor is the examination unlike many such model displays, both in respect of its eliciting nothing and of its being lengthy, for Mr. Guppy is sensible of his talent, and Mrs. Snagsby feels not only that it gratifies her inquisitive disposition, but that it lifts her husband's establishment higher up in the law.†
Chpt 19-21
- "Well, sir," returns Mr. Snagsby, "you see, my little woman is—not to put too fine a point upon it—inquisitive.†
Chpt 22-24
- She's inquisitive.†
Chpt 22-24
- Certain it is that she avails herself of the present opportunity of hovering over her kinsman's letters and papers like a bird, taking a short peck at this document and a blink with her head on one side at that document, and hopping about from table to table with her glass at her eye in an inquisitive and restless manner.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(inquisitive) interested in learning about things -- often asking many questions