All 4 Uses of
scrutiny
in
Lucky by Sebold
- But under his scrutiny I felt different than I had with Jonathan Gulick.†
Chpt 5
- 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 7
- The history of shamans and the occult garnered our intense intellectual scrutiny.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something