Meaning

Alternative spelling of dryly..

Example Sentences

“Anybody been here, Sammy?” asked Mr. Weller senior, drily, after a long silence.

Füssli […] gives an account of the painter which is largely occupied with a consideration of his masterpiece, the ‘Battle of Waterloo.’ He comments upon the prominence given to Wellington in the picture, and rather drily remarks […] that the rearward position assigned Blücher is not an ungraceful tribute to Germany ! the intention undoubtedly being ‘der deutschen Bescheidenheit ein Compliment zu machen.’

It was not until 1889, however, that Nat Goodwin's talent as a comedian of the “legitimate” type began to be recognized. From that time he appeared in a number of plays designed to display his drily humorous method, such as Brander Matthews' and George H. Jessop's A Gold Mine, Henry Guy Carleton's A Gilded Fool and Ambition, Clyde Fitch’s Nathan Hale, H. V. Esmond's When We Were Twenty-one, &c.

Haines, who had been laughing guardedly, walked on beside Stephen and said: — We oughtn’t to laugh, I suppose. He’s rather blasphemous. I’m not a believer myself, that is to say. Still his gaiety takes the harm out of it somehow, doesn’t it? What did he call it? Joseph the Joiner? — The ballad of Joking Jesus, Stephen answered. — O, Haines said, you have heard it before? — Three times a day, after meals, Stephen said drily.

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• more drily
• most drily

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When Should You Use Drily?

Use drily when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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