mousingly

mousingly

English

Etymology

mousing +‎ -ly

Adverb

mousingly

1. (archaic) In a prying or meddlesome manner.
   • 1881, Allyn E. Wolcott, "That's the Talk" for American Freemen (page 183)

     Those who mousingly, or audaciously seek for places of public trust and power, are never worthy of them.

   • 1908, Mary Stewart Cutting Jr, The Wayfarers (page 147)

     […] being intent mousingly on getting every last little cheesy crumb of detail, and peacefully unaware of deep, rich stores concealed in her own family.