[
UK
/dˈʌmli/
]
ADVERB
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in a stupid manner
he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone -
in an inarticulate manner
I nodded dumbly and he slit the envelope
How To Use dumbly In A Sentence
- I think you were dumbly trying to convey antagonist or even an antipathist moron. ZDNET.com.au
- looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
- An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
- When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk.
- An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
- He stared dumbly at the end of the cable - the end which should have been connected to the computer!
- They stood watching dumbly in horrible fascination after it shattered.
- Given the gory, carnage strewn 250-plus pages that precede that statement, the reader can only nod dumbly in agreement.
- The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, once dumbly remote from one another, were models of "jointness," as the military calls its long-sought-after (and rarely achieved) goal of cooperation between the services. The Secret War
- The employees stared dumbly after him, all of them dressed alike, members of the same club.
