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drily
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a dry manner alt. In a dry manner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drily \Dri"ly\, adv. See Dryly . --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] ||
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
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.