0 in a way that seems serious and intelligent, often because someone is wearing glasses: --
I sat on the divan and stared at him owlishly.
His note of laughter joined hers as they sat staring owlishly at each other through the dark of the after-storm.
He gazed at her owlishly, one nervous hand fumbling on the blotting-pad before him.
His delight reached the merman, who sat up to gaze owlishly at the coils the stranger pulled from concealment.
Then the door opened and the old man, blinking owlishly, stood before me.
Blinking owlishly in the light which had been focused upon him, he was a deplorable sight.
His attention arrested by the sound of voices, he peered owlishly over one shoulder.
Perhaps she noticed him jump, for she stopped at once and stared at him owlishly.
