dryly

English

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Etymology

dry + -ly

Pronunciation

  • enPR: drīʹli, IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.li/

Adverb

dryly (comparative more dryly, superlative most dryly)

  1. In a dry manner.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
      “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

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