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airily

[ UK /ˈe‍əɹɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a flippant manner
    this cannot be airily explained to your children
    he answered the reporters' questions flippantly

How To Use airily In A Sentence

  • It was all right, maybe, for Stephen Hawking to airily dismiss time as a human construct.
  • It was all right, maybe, for Stephen Hawking to airily dismiss time as a human construct.
  • Frank Smith, the chief priest of Whole Word, airily announced that people can learn 50,000 or even 100,000 sight-words. Memo to Educators: Stop the Lies About Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
  • Airily the horse whinnied at him, as if stating he was better.
  • O well," airily, "if you will have it, we were just coming to dig for corpses;" and she tossed her head with an independent air. The Rhodesian
  • Then the canopy of heaven became a mighty loom, wherein imperial purple and deep sea-green blended, wove, and interwove, with blazing woof and flashing warp, till the most delicate of tulles, fluorescent and bewildering, was daintily and airily shaken in the face of the astonished night. CHAPTER 18
  • Poor trade figures have been airily waved aside as irrelevant or of no consequence so long as oil and invisibles - investment inflows and earnings from travel, insurance and tourism - continued to boom.
  • ‘I don't think it makes a lot of difference,’ said the governor airily.
  • It was all right, maybe, for Stephen Hawking to airily dismiss time as a human construct.
  • Ackerman declines to discuss her own emotional resume, but does say airily, "I was born with a poet's sensibility, and Prozac made it impossible for me to do what comes naturally -- think metaphorically, allusively, exploring the hidden connection between seemingly unrelated things. Book Marks
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