As I sat there waiting for the guard and steeling myself to lie boldly, shamelessly, for Barreau's sake and my own, my gaze rested speculatively on the pieces of flooring I had laid over the hole.
She was distinctly unbirdlike--apart from that trick of tipping her head sidewise and gazing speculatively at whatsoever interested her.
But as he rummaged, his eyes held speculatively on the boat astern.
All that can be done is to use language which may speculatively demonstrate it, and also to express the relation of this factor in nature to other factors.
Thought cannot proceed otherwise; namely, it cannot proceed without the ideal bare 'it' which is speculatively demonstrated.
He looked at her sospeculatively for a moment after this that she wondered whether he had something more to say.
Flat on his belly near the warm box stove Miki watched his new-found master speculativelyas he pulled on his boots.
Noozak eyed him speculatively for some moments, then reared herself slowly and went to him.
Judgment is speculatively erroneous with regard to duty, when one decides that in general something is lawful which is unlawful; or vice versa, as when one thinks that lying is pleasing to God.
Hence, the erroneous judgment that precedes despair is similar to that which precedes every act of sin, namely, it is always practically erroneous, though not always speculatively so.
Example: It is speculatively certain that farm work on a holyday is a forbidden kind of work, and that clerics are obliged to say the Divine Office.
Seventh Commandment) that we find professional theologians who take opposite sides, or admit that, speculatively speaking, they do not know where the truth lies.
That which is more probable by far, or most probable, does overcome all doubt, and is even speculatively certain; but he who would require the more probable in this sense does not differ from the Tutiorists spoken of above.
Speculatively there is some difficulty about Baptism of unborn fetuses, of abortive fetuses, and of monstrosities (e.
Presumption is joined with unbelief whenever it proceeds from a speculatively false judgment about matters of faith.
He looked slowly and speculatively at Dorothea Fueyo.
Thus it is speculatively probable that a Catholic might without sin remain years without confession, never having any grievous sins to confess, grievous sin alone being necessary matter for that sacrament.
He is aware speculatively of the importance of the religious question; but his heart is not in religion at all.
She turned her face towards the Savilestowe Leys, a desolate stretch of land at the lower end of the village, and from the hedgerow which bordered it, looked long and speculatively across its flat, unpromising surface.
He lookedspeculatively at her as he lifted his glass.
He unfastened the bronze chain-belt still buckled in his kilt tunic, swinging the lengthspeculatively in one hand.
Our minds are therefore naturally dissatisfied with their lot and speculatively directed upon an outspread universe in which our persons count for almost nothing.
Tom looked speculatively at the next store on his route, which was a tiny shoe shop with one diminutive window filled with cheap footwear.
He watched the boy speculatively as the latter strode unhurriedly down the aisle and out of the door.
Frosty halted beside him and Andy lookedspeculatively at his companion.
Andy thought speculatively of one of the cages in which the muskrats had been shipped.
He stood back from the gutted precincts and gazed speculatively upon the picture.
His eyes were gazing curiously, speculatively at the figure of the man who ruled the local cattle industry.
Scepticism has thus also treated of ideas which are, properly speaking, speculative, and demonstrated their importance; for the demonstration of the contradiction in the finite is an essential point in the speculatively philosophic method.
Rufe sat down on the edge of it, and gazedspeculatively at it.
His eyes swept past the huddled form of the young messenger in the chair, and fixed speculatively on the safe.
The Butcher opened the lead box, took out the lead cylinder, and balanced it speculatively in the palm of his hand.
From the pocket in the back lining of his coat he produced his mask, fingered it speculatively for an instant, then slipped it over his face.
He had thought speculatively of the possible complicity of the other women of the household, but never of hers.
Carroll glanced speculatively at the ostentatiously squared shoulders of the other man as he passed through the car.
Cautiously the Little Girl crept forward on her hands and knees to the edge of the car and peered speculatively through the great yellow wheel-spokes.
A trifle speculatively for an instant she glanced at the Superintendent's face and then back again to the Senior Surgeon's.
Then suddenly conscious that people were staring at us, and that a policeman was speculatively watching our encounter, he hastily put his arm through mine and drew me away.
You're a sort of hero of romance," she smiled speculatively over my head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speculatively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
