interrogative

Over the holiday season, there were online pile-ons galore, with straight women repeatedly taking gay critics of the show to task over their negative or merely interrogative opinions of the series.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026

At charity events, auctioneers insert interrogative phrases, such as “would you give?,” an appeal to the bidders’ generosity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

The interrogative form does all the work of asking aloud — with none of the actual asking — why mom still thinks you can speak for a four-years-ago ex.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2022

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., was presiding over the Senate when Schumer posed his interrogative.

From Fox News ● Sep. 26, 2020

He stood with his head on one side and himself on one side, in a bullying, interrogative manner, and he threw his forefinger at Mr. Wopsle,—as it were to mark him out—before biting it again.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Speaking in a deadpan monotone, he is prone to responding to interrogatives with a curt “affirmative” or “negative” and saying things like “normal is for normal people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020

Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017

The extended forms of the pronouns given in the above table are not much used as separate words, except in answer to interrogatives, or assertively.

From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

Now, all thinking men of all ages of history have ever tried to understand Nature as a whole and to answer regarding her three important questions represented by three interrogatives, what? how? and why?

From Notes on Islam by Khaja Muhammad Hussain

These interrogatives were addressed to the footman who had come in to say that the keeper had found one of Dagley's boys with a leveret in his hand just killed.

From Middlemarch by George Eliot