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drily

[ UK /dɹˈa‍ɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a dry laconic manner
    `I know that', he said dryly

How To Use drily In A Sentence

  • As he drily says :'I got into some trouble. Times, Sunday Times
  • My opportunities of social intercourse "-- drily --" are somewhat limited. The Hermit of Far End
  • The dialogue is laconic, direct, sometimes drily humorous.
  • Another noted drily: 'More like he gets fi rst pick of new interns. Times, Sunday Times
  • I remember looking at my teacher, who remains an impeccable wit to this day, and seeing her drily respond to the outrage that truly transformative literature provokes. Farai Chideya: Why I'm Leaving Journalism... For Now
  • The transcendentally synthetic quality of this music, blending styles as diverse as the Prophetiae Sibyllarum and the late madrigals, stands in the sharpest possible contrast to what was in other hands already becoming the drily academic stile antico. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The catalogue entry drily notes that the dress is a form of product placement: "a virtual advertisement of the duke's revival of the silk industry in Florence". Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
  • ‘There was also,’ said Aunt Emily, drily, ‘the matter that you have, apparently, skipped a few classes.’
  • This is possibly the most acutely perceptive (and drily humorous) political film ever made.
  • Never mind the hole in the ceiling, " he said drily.
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