arid
adjective
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched.
aridly
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a word derived from
arid.
Example Sentences
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Adam D. Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said that Ms. Cooper’s lineup has a “cerebral cast of mind, but not aridly so.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2021
In the early 1980s, Njie moved to the US to attend the University of Texas in Austin, a cosmopolitan oasis in the heart of aridly conservative Texas.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2015
The quartet members insist they like what they play, although much of it is aridly inaccessible to untrained ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ultimate value is the mingling of the professional artist, with his intense personal stake in his art, and the university, so often aridly concerned with detached theory.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the deduction and description of them his procedure is sometimes aridly systematic, sometimes even forced and artificial, but for the most part ingenious, appropriate, and psychologically acute.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
