airily

[ UK /ˈe‍əɹɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a flippant manner
    this cannot be airily explained to your children
    he answered the reporters' questions flippantly
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How To Use airily In A Sentence

  • Not at all," airily: "a well-known aeronaut, who has recently beaten the distance-record, and is looking remarkably well in spite of his advanced years, was among the distinguished guests! Winding Paths
  • Any failures that popped up were airily dismissed because Klein was fine-tuning the mechanism. Joel Klein's snow job
  • Sara asked airily as though the very idea were ridiculous.
  • Furthermore, and in continuation, as Mr. McClave always says after his ninthly," airily interrupted Janice, drawing from her bosom the portrait of herself. Janice Meredith
  • I don't care, " he said airily.
  • The other airily swings his torches of love, their flames mantling a cloud on which Jupiter's eagle fierily reposes.
  • Then the canopy of heaven became a mighty loom, wherein imperial purple and deep sea-green blended, wove, and interwove, with blazing woof and flashing warp, till the most delicate of tulles, fluorescent and bewildering, was daintily and airily shaken in the face of the astonished night. CHAPTER 18
  • Everyone is entitled to an opinion," said the Lion airily. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • Probably not at all important," said Dennis airily, beginning to enjoy himself. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
  • I wave airily and the face moves away.
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