interrogative

She includes any information-seeking act, from a verbal interrogative to the sniff one might give a carton of milk to gauge its freshness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

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

I got along very well till Chitty came up, and his interrogatives were so pert and pointed that he very nearly spoiled the entire labor.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

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

Armathwaite found that life bristled with interrogatives just then.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy