quizzical

Chiefly of a person's expression: suggesting (slight) confusion or puzzlement, especially in an amused manner; curious, questioning.

• Wolf Larsen pursed his lips in a long, quizzical whistle.
• Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for eyes which were cool and direct and quizzical.

Characterized by bantering or joking; humorous, playful.

• We might indeed in Christian charity believe the writers of this performance to be deep dealers in irony, to be men of that quizzical disposition of which the very solemnity is suspicious.
• But I am apt to grow too metaphysical: / "The time is out of joint,"—and so am I; / I quite forget this poem's merely quizzical, / And deviate into matters rather dry.

Scornfully mocking; sardonic, sneering.

• During the last twenty years, Mr. Weeks at the Bush tavern, in the city, has annually, at Christmas, provided a larder furnished more abundantly and with greater variety, than perhaps any other tavern in ths kingdom could have shewn; but th

Eccentric, odd, strange.archaic

• VVe vvell knovv indeed that obedience to ſuperiors is covvardly—reſpect to decency, quizzical—that tutors are not to be minded, or tradeſmen paid—that attention is flat—virtue a bore, and learning the devil.