dryly
Britishadverb
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“There’s no stage at which profound public rejection isn’t in the offing,” he says, dryly.
From Los Angeles Times
“She’s laughing,” Wilson said dryly, “because she knows she’s not in any danger of my doing so.”
From Los Angeles Times
Cortez Masto noted, dryly, that Congress is, in fact, a separate branch of government with its own power and authority.
From Los Angeles Times
Still, it may as well be implied by the character’s disaffected approach to the tectonic event that undergirds Victor’s dryly funny, intimate debut.
From Salon
“It’s not,” he said dryly, “a model the rest of the country wants to follow.”
From Los Angeles Times
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