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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drily
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
think
▪ A subject which, I thought drily, afforded a good deal of scope for liars.
▪ She was probably glad that the inquisition was over too, Sabine thought drily.
▪ A royal summons, no less, Sabine thought drily.
▪ At least he'd made some one happy, he thought drily, regretting that he'd snarled at the lad in front of him.
▪ Yes, he would certainly earn his keep in this job, she thought drily.
▪ Which, she thought drily, was probably the only welcome she'd get.
▪ Charles and Lucy certainly knew how to pick their friends, she thought drily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Barnett replied drily that Davis's best option was to feed the gingerbread to his bears.
▪ She was probably glad that the inquisition was over too, Sabine thought drily.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drily

Drily \Dri"ly\, adv. See Dryly.
--Thackeray. [1913 Webster] ||

Wiktionary
drily

adv. In a dry manner alt. In a dry manner

WordNet
drily

adv. with dry humor; "`Never mind the hole in the ceiling,' he saiid drily"

Usage examples of "drily".

The interview room was warm, drily stale and unused like the aseptic corridors he had followed to reach it.

Sophie said drily, depositing a mug of coffee on the bedside table and handing Lindsay two paracetamols and a glass of water.

Duke said drily, then gestured towards the fields which lay to the left of Quatre Bras.

As Alan Walker and Pat Shipman have drily observed, if you correlate tool discovery with the species of creature most often found nearby, you would have to conclude that early hand tools were mostly made by antelopes.

Rachel said drily, having crammed three thousand pages of local history on her first journey here, many years earlier.

Huxley in England drily observed how remarkable it was that the soldier, though mortally wounded, had climbed sixty feet up a cliff, divested himself of his clothing and personal effects, sealed the cave opening, and buried himself under two feet of soil.

Miss Fairfax rejoined drily, "I would scold you, general, for those lyrical effusions if they were intended for anybody else.