All 4 Uses
scrutiny
in
Lucky, by Sebold
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- But under his scrutiny I felt different than I had with Jonathan Gulick.†
Chpt 5scrutiny = careful look or inspection
- I was scrutinizing his mother.
Chpt 5 *scrutinizing = looking at very carefullystandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- I scrutinized the dead bugs on their backs, how their legs went out and then shot back in at sharp angles, how their antennae fell in stilled fragile arcs like lost human eyelashes.†
Chpt 7scrutinized = looked at very carefullystandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- The history of shamans and the occult garnered our intense intellectual scrutiny.†
Chpt 12scrutiny = careful look or inspection
Definitions:
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(1)
(scrutiny) careful examination of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)