dryly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/ˈdɹaɪ.li/
Definition of dryly
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In a dry manner.
“The company were convulsed with laughter, all except the host himself, who dryly remarked: ‘Very amusing, Mr. Robert, very amusing, truly; ye're a clever lad, very clever; but just let me tell you, […]’”
““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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Etymology
From dry + -ly.
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