Definition of "anxiously" []

• In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. (adverb)

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• "Convention, and again anxiously awaiting its results -- _anxiously_, for"
• "She was always a bit afraid he would find something, in one of those frames he scrutinized so carefully, that would take him away from her; she watched his expression anxiously, waiting for him to stumble upon some lost love huddled in a back corner who had slipped by unnoticed on previous examination."
• "* Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer watching anxiously from the sidelines;"