Hypertext Webster Gateway: "searchingly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Searching \Search"ing\, a.
Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as,
a searching discourse; a searching eye. ``Piercing,
searching, biting, cold.'' --Dickens. -- {Search"ing*ly},
adv. -- {Search"ing*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
searchingly
adv : in a searching manner; "`Are you really happy with him,'
asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly"
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