Example Sentences

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Paola Dionisotti makes a dottily endearing Mistress Quickly.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2014

She is the Mimi of the novel's title, a middle-aged, dottily feminist raconteur who seems not unlike Ellmann herself.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2013

No, emphatically not, would be the response of the dottily romanticizing tour guide Lettice, played by Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage, Shaffer's rambling but zesty comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive