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challengingly
adverb
uk /ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ.li/ us /ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ.li/
challenginglyadverb (QUESTIONING)
in a way that questions someone's authority:
"How do we know you found the money in my room? You could have just put it there," he said challengingly.
The knight drew his sword challengingly, and his enemy took several steps back.
His tone was so challengingly abrupt that his guests stared at him in surprise.
She looked challengingly at him, then left the room without a word.
The women divided in two groups that challengingly eyed each other until the tension slowly dissolved.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Suspecting & questioning
ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
challenge
cynic
cynical about someone/something
cynically
cynicism
doubt
doubt about sth
interrogate
query
reserve
sceptical
scepticism
skeptic
skeptical
skeptically
suspect
suspected
suspiciously
unchallengeable
challenginglyadverb (DIFFICULT)
in a way that is difficult and tests your ability or determination :
People are encouraged to choose between the two arguments or, more challengingly, to find a compromise.
This is a challengingly dense book, but a deeply rewarding one.
The food is fashionable without being challengingly modern.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult to understand
abstruse
abstrusely
ambiguity
ambiguous
ambiguously
esoterically
fathomless
fathomlessly
garble
get it into your thick headidiom
labyrinthine
lost
non-intuitive
obscurely
obscurity
unreadable
verbiage
verbosely
verbosity
wasted on someoneidiom
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