concernedly

Three of the friends to whom I recommended Li’s new novel, “The Book of Goose,” paused for a moment and then asked, concernedly, how sad is it?

Third, for the disease reports, my eye lit on the phrase “variants not detected” for Parkinson's disease, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, sickle cell anemia, Tay-Sachs and, most concernedly, Alzheimer's.

“With all this soccer, when do you ever get the time to do your homework?” my mother said concernedly.

For each of these presenting symptoms there can be a gamut of possible causes — what doctors call the “differential diagnosis” — that run from the prosaically benign to the concernedly urgent to the immediately life-threatening.

Joe frowned concernedly as he pushed out of his chair and moseyed into the bathroom to brush his teeth.