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quizzical

(adj): playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)
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11 months ago uselessness said:

If quizzes are quizzical, then what are tests?

about 1 year ago rolig said:

"In Maria, child of her brother's late marriage, he now saw that beauty, or sort of physical genius, without the halting influence that had bound Mrs. Vesey up -- yes, and bound Henry up, from his boyhood, with her -- in a circle of quizzical half-smiles." -- Elizabeth Bowen, "Sunday Afternoon," Ivy Gripped the Steps.

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