drily

[drahy-lee]

adverb

1. dryly.

drily

/ ˈdraɪlɪ /

adverb

1. in a dry manner

Other Word Forms

• overdrily adverb

Example Sentences

This, he commented drily, made it "Britain's most wanted van".

From BBC

“If the water starts rolling up on us, well, somebody will probably run,” he noted drily.

From Los Angeles Times

"All of us," Miliband drily replied, "believe in dignity in retirement."

From BBC

"I need elderly health care from my nieces and nephew," she says drily, "so I need that cultural cachet."

From Salon

As the Washington Post drily put it, “Voters prefer Harris’s agenda to Trump’s — they just don’t realize it,” summarizing the findings of a 128-item YouGov survey, which led me to post this on Bluesky:

From Salon