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

Variety wrote: The film “feels like a miracle and an interrogative act of defiance.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022

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

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 demonstratives and interrogatives are inflected for number and person like the rest.

From The Gundungurra Language by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

This word is one of the interrogatives in the Indian language, and is equivalent to "what" in the English language.

From History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author by Andrew J. Blackbird

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