Synonyms:
examination, scrutiny
Meaning: the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
Synonyms:
scrutiny
Meaning: a prolonged intense look
Usage examples
The scrutiny was searching but not prolonged.
'Come here, Amy,' she said after a moment's scrutiny.
"But your foot must bear scrutiny, and your eyes, and your voice.
"Do you like me?" said Ermengarde, finally, at the end of her scrutiny.
She suddenly approached me, and fixed her eyes in eager scrutiny on my face.
In imagination he felt the scrutiny of his companions as he painfully labored through some lies.
"Reckon you might as well," answered the old man, giving a final close scrutiny before handing it to the boy.
In the course of his scrutiny, on the 1st of January, 1801, he noticed a small star which next evening appeared to have shifted.
You may say that the lady is not running for a public office, and that, therefore, she should be protected from public scrutiny, but that is a fallacy.
I was at the tiller; so Bob took the glass, and levelling it at the brig, gave her a more thorough scrutiny than we had bestowed upon her at all hitherto.