Adjective : a groping scrutiny; a groping expression.    From Dictionary.com. 

The child responded and touched Janice lightly, gropingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

That, he thought gropingly, must be the worthy Mrs. Adams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Then gropingly and tremblingly Ann Walden got upon her feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

Enid's fingers reached gropingly toward her new-found friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Sandy's mind worked more slowly; gropingly he strove to understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

Eldin gropingly retrieved his knife and hauled himself to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero Of Dreams]

As though in spite of himself, his arms moved gropingly towards her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

It was she herself who began, dimly and gropingly, to see her way ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

"You mean," she faltered gropingly at last, "that another woman has ----".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

With gropingly tenacious faith he stumbles toward this hinted adjudication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

They began to whine as we approached, and stretched out their hands gropingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

I know that today many seek their way gropingly and don't know in whom to trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 15th, 2009] Reference

Weakly, gropingly, he stretched his benumbed hand out again; he was well on his way now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference

She stretched her hands towards him gropingly, like a child that is frightened in the dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

As I did so Desiree threw her hands gropingly above her head and fell fainting to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loaded Dice]

"No," Jees Uck answered slowly and gropingly, in order that she might do justice to her English.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE STORY OF JEES UCK] Reference

For days and days doubts and misgivings troubled him so that he walked as a blind man, gropingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

Obeying a sudden impulse, she got up, and gropingly, with shuffling, cautious steps, moved across the cavern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

At the sound of her voice he put out his hand to her, gropingly, but he did not uncover his face or shift his position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn About Eleanor] Reference

Then slowly a pitiful, crooked smile twitched Miss Arbuckle's lips and her hand reached out gropingly for the back of a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck] Reference

It flashes instant communication of all that architecture and painting and music for a thousand years have gropingly striven to express.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

He feels of the outside gropingly -- takes it home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference

Then he reached for a chair, gropingly, and sat down.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Basket] Reference

The non-coms. go gropingly after the officer to get instructions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference

Blindly and gropingly he was still going in search of his kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference

She put out her hands gropingly and fell forward across Gil's inert body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean of the Lazy A] Reference

He let his words wander gropingly over the water until a silence entered him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erik Dorn] Reference

She got up and began to walk to and fro restlessly, gropingly across the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow-Blind] Reference

She was a forlorn, gray creature, half blind, and she felt her way about gropingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference

On and on she sang, and on and on the dying man gropingly felt his way to Eternity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of the Storm Country] Reference

On the fifteen yards his hand went out gropingly, touched Eric's back and fell away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left End Edwards] Reference

Our hands met gropingly, lingered united in a steady, motionless clasp for a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Sharer] Reference

"I am glad to see you," she went on slowly and gropingly, her face a ripple of smiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Bellew] Reference

Our hands met gropingly, lingered united in a steady, motionless clasp for a second.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference

Even as he looked, she threw her arm out gropingly, and fell and leaned against the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dynamiter] Reference

Suddenly, gropingly, he reached out for them both, and got the two of them into his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Journeys On] Reference

She reached out gropingly and struggled to her feet, and looked just once down upon the snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nomads of the North] Reference

The boy put out his hand gropingly, turning his head with the pitiful uncertainty of the blind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference