drily

Adverb

Meaning

See Dryly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dryly laconically curtly bitingly DRY carefully arid ironically humorously cautiously chilly acuity coldly ambiguously anxiously
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Antonyms

interestingly goodly fairly freshly graciously ardently
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Anagrams

lyrid

Examples

Now I'm going to make you angry again.” "Really?” I asked, drily. "Aren't you getting tired of that? Ann Leckie

Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily. Suzanne Collins

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply. Susanna Clarke

`I know that', he said dryly Source: Internet

Thomasina drily comments, "Yes Mama, if you would have it so". Source: Internet

Robb, 5–6 As the author and literary critic Sir Victor Pritchett explained, "She was certainly drily aware that she had been given to an old husband as a reward for his professional services to a friend of her family and that the capital was on her side. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

drillstock drillstring drilosphere drimane drimenol Drimoleague