She examined the data studiously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a studious boy. ,studious tastes. ,studious care. ,a studious program to maintain peace. From Dictionary.com.
It's a word studiously avoided by area school officials. From Wordnik.com. [battlecreekenquirer.com -] Reference
The NAACP is officially nonpartisan, but to call it "studiously" so is perhaps a bit of a stretch. From Wordnik.com. [No Match for McCain] Reference
Organizers studiously stayed away from such division. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Drexler: Women of the Tea Party: who are you, and what do you want?] Reference
The bishop was studiously guarded and significantly polite. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Jiang's civilian rivals will play their hands more studiously. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of The Shadows] Reference
The official response, meanwhile, has been studiously measured. From Wordnik.com. [No Fanning the Flames] Reference
He had studiously abstained from mixing himself up with politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
"Nothing," replied Frank Sheldon, studiously avoiding his comrade's eye. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Well into 1963 he studiously downplayed the civil rights issues involved. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
The mother seemed aware of her focus but studiously avoided looking her way. From Wordnik.com. [Nora and Paul at the Coffeeshop] Reference
But she thought it odd that this man kept his face studiously turned from her. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
And she studiously avoided taking shots at others, even when she was tempted to. From Wordnik.com. [Rosanne Cash pens a rich memoir about her personal and musical journey] Reference
Nervous people avoid it studiously, but it has many friends among the other animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Madeline Payne, after studiously ignoring the two men for some days, began to unbend. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
During the eight-hour hearing, Diana's mother, Frances Shand-Kydd, studiously ignored Fayed. From Wordnik.com. ['It's Not What She Would Have Wanted'] Reference
She hadn't studied for years; in fact, she had never learned to do intellectual work studiously. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
He did not turn his face towards her, and his voice was studiously gentle, but it was decided too. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
The girl — Nora, her nametag said — handed him the two packs with a studiously bored expression. From Wordnik.com. [Two of a Kind] Reference
She did not refuse to let him hold it in his, but studiously refrained from looking him in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Grace tried to catch her eye to warn her, but Emma studiously refrained from permitting that very thing. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
Powell was gracious but studiously neutral about the plan, which envisions a permanent settlement by 2005. From Wordnik.com. [Mideast: A 'Virtual' Peace, But A Real Controvers] Reference
It is one I have worked out carefully and studiously and used successfully on many of my pupils and myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Once again, my YouTube studies lead me to pop-analysis of cultural phenomena I had otherwise studiously avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Alexandra Juhasz: Users Want Tosh(ers)] Reference
You may have noticed that I have studiously avoided the mention of bags or shoes where animal print is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [But Would Jackie Wear It?] Reference
She had never known the details, for both her brother and Giovanni had studiously concealed them from her; indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Zuleika studiously avoided referring to the attempted robbery and the recognition of Danglars by her father and Eugénie. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
There are other times when the attitude, severely impartial and studiously aloof, accuses itself of a little pompousness. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Pakistani security forces stayed studiously away until the militants left 12 hours later, having combed through the debris. From Wordnik.com. [Where ‘The Land Is on Fire’] Reference
Facial make-up studiously (and wisely) avoids orientalizing the "Japanese" cast with pasty skin-tones or painted eye-slants. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe] Reference
He took the trouble to be irresistible -- not to Madame Lescande, to whom he was studiously respectful -- but to Madame Mursois. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
During these strolls he shunned every person he met, it being Monte-Cristo's desire that he should studiously avoid observation. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
He has studiously removed the army from playing any direct political role since he assumed the top slot from Musharraf late last year. From Wordnik.com. [‘Victory for Democracy’] Reference
Both have studiously attempted to avoid mud-slinging in the contest, although things have got more pointed and personal in recent weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Miliband brothers get docudrama treatment from Channel 4] Reference
Today, Ernie says, he listens studiously to P. Diddy -- he's even got the new name right -- and "all those blond cutie-pies with navels.". From Wordnik.com. [Bringing Back Tha Funk] Reference
Moscow's Kremlin-controlled media studiously ignored his departure, but voters in Zubov's native Siberia got an earful from local outlets. From Wordnik.com. [How to Handle Russia?] Reference
The earnest desire to please each other should by no means terminate on the wedding day, but be studiously continued through married life. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
That studiously nonjudgmental attitude has also slowed progress in Burma, which is so dependent on Beijing's largesse that its economy might collapse without it. From Wordnik.com. [War of Wills] Reference
After decades during which the underground studiously paid attention to the mainstream — if only to subvert it — perhaps it's time for the establishment to start taking notes. From Wordnik.com. [All the Pretty Verses, Indie Style] Reference
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