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

And so, instead of saying Ashoke’s name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as “Are you listening to me?”

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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 particles ca and zo, as has been said above, are used as interrogatives.

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear

My interrogatives were intended to arouse him from the reverie into which he had fallen.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

Dr. Crombie thinks, "that interrogatives are strictly relatives;" and yet divides the two classes with his own hand!

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown