interrogative

She includes any information-seeking act, from a verbal interrogative to the sniff one might give a carton of milk to gauge its freshness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Over the holiday season, there were online pile-ons galore, with straight women repeatedly taking gay critics of the show to task over their negative or merely interrogative opinions of the series.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026

Variety wrote: The film “feels like a miracle and an interrogative act of defiance.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022

Had Cooper approached this question with the same interrogative spirit with which she approached her own narrative assumptions, the book would have felt more complete.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2020

Stanley lifted his forearm off the rock and held up an interrogative finger.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Speaking in a deadpan monotone, he is prone to responding to interrogatives with a curt “affirmative” or “negative” and saying things like “normal is for normal people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020

Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017

These interrogatives were addressed to the footman who had come in to say that the keeper had found one of Dagley's boys with a leveret in his hand just killed.

From Middlemarch by George Eliot

The people ran to the water's edge and began firing a broadside of down east interrogatives with such rapidity as to nearly swamp him.

From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

The extended forms of the pronouns given in the above table are not much used as separate words, except in answer to interrogatives, or assertively.

From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews