anxiously

adv

1. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

   “He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.”

   “He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.”

   “'Even in summer, Grannie?' Heidi persisted anxiously.”

   “High school seniors across California are anxiously awaiting word on their public university acceptances. But thousands of other soon-to-be graduates are virtually locked out. A key reason? Nearly half haven’t taken the required classes.”