apprehensively
- r with anxiety or apprehension
- Doubtless, many passengers remembered apprehensively that in its first major public appearance at the Paris air show four years ago, the Concordski went out of control, killing 13 .
- The Middle Americans cherish, apprehensively, a system of values that they see assaulted and mocked everywhereeverywhere except in Richard Nixon's Washington.
- Eagerly and a little apprehensively, Washington is preparing for President-elect Eisenhower's inauguration.