Crossword clues for airily
airily
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Airily \Air"i*ly\ ([^a]r"[i^]*l[y^]), adv. In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
WordNet
adv. in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters' questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained to your children" [syn: flippantly]
Usage examples of "airily".
The rest I was prepared to dismiss airily as some sort of unfortunate aberration brought about by the exceptional circumstances of the tornado.
Sadie Trehan said airily, shrugging her shoulders as she walked across the room, approaching Keely and M and M.
Ramus Ymph, after a perfunctory salute to the audience, turned toward Nai the Hever, his manner still airily confident.
Florence Green is eighty-one with blue legs and has 300 million dollars and in 1932 was in love, airily, with a radio announcer named Norman Brokenshire, with his voice.
He trailed off airily, leaving the Bursar with a sense of infinite financial connections.
It contained a real bought doll, with a china head and a cloth body, who was gorgeously and airily attired in pink tarlatan with silver spangles.
Then he shot one last sly look at Domini and hurried on, airily swinging the green bag to and fro.
He nodded very slightly to Farrell, touching a forefinger airily to the indigo turban, which was coming loose again.
Three stories tall, the long, multiwinged palace stood there airily in its setting of snow, sky, and shrubbery.
The Countess, at this, looked sharply at Beale, and Beale, airily enough, asked what the deuce it mattered when she had already given him to understand she wanted to have nothing to do with them.
So airily, binarily we took a bow: Hello, having wonderful time Wish you were here.
Below the garden a green field lush with clover sloped down to the hollow where the brook ran and where scores of white birches grew, upspringing airily out of an undergrowth suggestive of delightful possibilities in ferns and mosses and woodsy things generally.
He kissed her, yes, visi ble and palpable to her as he was to me, and his hair fell down on her as it did on me even now in the airily compassless gloom where we watched.
Trees like tall, languid ladies with feather fans coquetting airily with the ugly roof of the monastery.
Craig enquired airily, and Jock Daniels sobered miraculously, and fastened Craig with a beady auctioneer's eye.