snoopingly

English

Etymology

snooping +‎ -ly

Adverb

snoopingly (not comparable)

1. In a snooping manner.
   • 1921, Jeff Branen, The African Golf Club: A Blackface Farce, page 12:

     PARSON enters from L., goes to door of clubhouse and knocks. No answer. Knocks again. No answer. Knocks a third time. No answer. Tries door, but it is locked. Looks around snoopingly and listens for sounds of rolling dice, but hears none.

   • 1983, M. F. K. Fisher, As They Were, page 34:

     I hid my own purchases for several days, no mean trick in a school where every drawer and cupboard was inspected, openly and snoopingly too, at least twice a week.

   • 2001, Vivien Marx, The Semen Book, page 89:

     […] I saunter snoopingly into his summer lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.