interrogative

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

At charity events, auctioneers insert interrogative phrases, such as “would you give?,” an appeal to the bidders’ generosity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

Armathwaite found that life bristled with interrogatives just then.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy

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

This the relative pronouns do, through the logical elements common to them and to the interrogatives: these latter essentially suggesting the idea of doubt.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham