musingly

American  

[myooz-ing-lee] / ˈmyuz ɪŋ li /

adverb

1. while or as if musing, pondering, or mulling something over; thoughtfully; meditatively.

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Example Sentences

She paused, then said musingly, “I have several pretty house dresses. I could throw one on and come down and talk to you… but I’m too lazy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 1974

When I was a young man, an old professor in Germany, who was the greatest man in our field, said to me musingly: "In our profession one needs a certain abnegation."

From Time Magazine Archive

When she sang her most famous piece, "Violetera," where she goes among the audience with little violet bunches to offer musingly, withdraw capriciously, bestow impetuously, the starched and bejeweled Manhattanites arose and cheered.

From Time Magazine Archive

She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every six weeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was able to say musingly, “To be or not to be.”

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan