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

She led me, not to the stiff chair set up, interrogative style, in front of her desk, but to the plush crimson cushion of her window seat.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

After such desultory interrogatives, without any warning, came Question 15: ‘Give the character of Prince Potemki’:— Sordidly mean, ostentatiously prodigal, filthily intemperate and affectedly refined. 

From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross

But remember, that the use of the interrogatives who? and what? however justifiable in grammar, is very impertinent in conversation.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech

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