DRILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drily mean? 

• DRILY (adverb)
  The adverb DRILY has 1 sense:

1. in a dry laconic manner

  Familiarity information: DRILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a dry laconic manner

Synonyms:

drily; dryly; laconically

Context example:

'I know that', he said dryly

Pertainym:

dry (humorously sarcastic or mocking)

 Context examples 

“Hum!” said my uncle, drily, and it was the last word that he addressed to me that night.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh! yes,” said Elizabeth drily; “Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Barkis seemed gruff, and answered drily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“She is happy then,” said her father drily; “and her residence there will probably be of some duration.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“No,” said I, drily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)