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dryly

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

How To Use dryly In A Sentence

  • Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
  • ‘‘Isms’ and ‘ologies’,’ Magdalena said dryly, ‘Have we enough of them?’
  • Suddenly this dryly humorous film assumes a dangerous mood and darker comment on Antoine's life.
  • In a dryly humorous touch, the woman's firmly placed heels seem more than adequate substitutes for the chair's missing front legs.
  • Sometimes his pigment catches the canvas threads dryly, leaving the dips of the rough weave coloured only by the undercoat.
  • In a dryly humorous touch, the woman's firmly placed heels seem more than adequate substitutes for the chair's missing front legs.
  • He feels very self-conscious and swallows dryly, clearing his throat.
  • I swallowed dryly and rediscovered at least a part of my wit.
  • ‘There is a certain amount of disagreement among the authors who write of this matter,’ the chronicler says dryly.
  • ‘Fifty songs,’ I mused. ‘Five thousand dollars worth of digital matter,’ I added to myself dryly.
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