curiously

adv

1. In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively.

   “The children peeped curiously into the attic room.”

2. Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way.

   “Curiously, when I arrived home, the front door was standing ajar.”

   “Performing a curiously melancholy, undulating developpe, the dancers point their legs at each other like accusing fingers.”

   ““The Life of a Showgirl” doesn’t quite fulfill this prophecy — or, rather, it delivers only technically. It is a work of hyperprofessional songcraft and production, but its emotional texture is curiously flat and joyless.”