dryly
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: drīʹli, IPA(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.li/
Adverb
dryly (comparative more dryly, superlative most dryly)
- 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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