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drily

[ UK /dɹˈa‍ɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a dry laconic manner
    `I know that', he said dryly

How To Use drily In A Sentence

  • No wonder, as Mr. Hamilton drily notes, that on the wall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (where Mendelssohn played and conducted) was Seneca's apothegm: "Res severa est verum gaudium. What Music Has Lost
  • Never mind the hole in the ceiling, " he said drily.
  • Her voice was thin and reedy; her throat clicked drily as she tried to swallow.
  • Besides "-- drily --" an unattached bachelor is considerably more in demand as a painter of society women's portraits than a Benedict. The Moon out of Reach
  • Ruth stared into the painted face, now sundrily cracked by the coursing tears. The Ragged Edge
  • He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained. A Sportsman's Sketches
  • All three works on this disc are idiomatically performed and decently, if rather drily, recorded.
  • And "-- drily --" it was just like him, too, to see that the marriage settlement arrangements were all quite water-tight. The Moon out of Reach
  • As the report notes drily: 'This study is likely to be controversial. Times, Sunday Times
  • Accomplishment of Singing, under the auspicious smile of the goddess, take possession, sundrily, of her children; and the two great arts of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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