(adv.) In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.
(2) He airily concludes: "It may well be the case that ethics rules could have been introduced earlier at Fifa and that there were no sufficient control mechanisms in earlier years but this does not lead to any violation of ethical standards, which only existed as rules from October 2004."
(3) Peter Hill-Wood, who stepped down as Arsenal's chairman earlier this year and handed the job to Sir Chips Keswick, was criticised for airily dismissing the concerns of supporters as the "same lot" and Arsène Wenger's insistence that reaching the Champions League counted as a "trophy" invited derision.
(4) She also recognises that there was more to it than this in her case, that the rock'n'roll clichés she airily dismissed in our first interview have become part of our collective folk memory.
(5) "You have to be over 50," Waterhouse replied airily.
(6) His 15-minute speech included boasts about the supposed – and inaccurate – size of crowds for his inauguration; expressions of airily defined love and support for intelligence agencies with which he has been at odds over their belief in Russian attempts to influence the election on his behalf; boasts about the number of times he has appeared on the cover of Time magazine ; the supposed fact that it stopped raining when he spoke at the Capitol on Friday ( it didn’t ); and an insinuation that he might start another war in Iraq.
(7) Speaking to a handful of journalists at Sporting’s training field yesterday (including one pale, bearded specimen huddled into the corner of his office nearest the baseboard heater), Vermes recalled playing in a game in freezing rain at the Rutgers Bowl, before airily gesturing at the tundra beyond his window and saying, “this is nothing.” I expect him to wear one of those t-shirts with a shirt and tie printed on it for the final.
(8) As foreign secretary William Hague met with representatives from over 140 countries to work towards ending impunity for wartime sexual violence and increasing prosecutions, he was airily accused of " hobnobbing at rape summit" with Angelina Jolie.
(9) Elsewhere he airily claimed that the UK is likely to leave the EU customs union while wanting to trade freely with the single market afterwards.
(10) On the Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Michael Heseltine airily dismissed a question about the Conservatives breaking links with their sister parties in eastern Europe as something that no voter was interested in.
(11) "Well these could easily be real people," she offers airily, but the dialogue consistently lacks the ring of truth, and many of the exchanges seem to serve no other purpose than to make the author look good.
(12) Yet their unpopularity, Heseltine maintains airily, in no way discredits the policy.
(13) "We allowed the information to come up to ministers," she said airily, which translated as "not one".
(14) Second, Hefce has been airily designated as "lead regulator".
(15) The party seems to be Teflon-coated down here, immune to gaffe after gaffe, and local chairman Martyn Heale’s National Front past is airily dismissed as a phase, at what he maintains was “a bit of a social club”.
(16) "The reality is that I have been in contact with a lot of people inside Syria and I have been following things very closely," he airily told Radio Scotland .
(17) As he embarks on army training, his eager bravado is palpable and he opts to join the machine gun corps – "They call it the suicide club," he writes airily.
(18) I asked a senior press officer who said airily, "Oh it was just lighthearted, one of those end of recess stories."
(19) Grand sentiments airily expressed, and all completely lost on Oxford city council's planners, who wanted the beached creature removed and put next to a public swimming pool.
(20) "Occasionally, in Richmond Park," he replied airily.
Eerily
Definition:
(adv.) In a strange, unearthly way.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets of Libreville, the central African country’s seaside capital, were eerily quiet on Friday evening.
(2) It is an eerily apposite image from the year the outbreak of the Spanish civil war inaugurated a new age of slaughter.
(3) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
(4) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
(5) Earlier this week in Janesville, where post-industrial melancholy is evident in a closed car plant and eerily quiet downtown, House speaker Paul Ryan crushed a Trump-style challenger in a congressional primary.
(6) Watching the Conservative leader now, Gould's stern paragraphs about the importance of television appearances and "symbolic policies", and how political parties should change to fit society, seem almost eerily applicable.
(7) Outside rush hour, the subway is eerily silent: thanks to a strong underground signal, everyone's staring at their smartphones, texting, playing games, or reading.
(8) The water crisis in Flint is a sobering reminder of America’s long history of disregard when it comes to the welfare of black bodies – I am not the first to note how eerily reminiscent it is of the Tuskegee Experiment in the 1970s, when hundreds of black men with syphilis were not told they had the disease so that US Public Health Services could study its progression.
(9) Fox's voice is small at first; she seems eerily distant, her face turned away.
(10) Andy Serkis As Gollum nee Smeagol, King Kong, and Caesar the chimpanzee who would rule us all, Andy Serkis has established himself as an actor so eerily good at imitation and invention that critics have called for award categories to expand just to reward his performances .
(11) A few farmers and children were walking the green fields, but Shadel Bazar was eerily quiet.
(12) There has and continues to be astonishing progress towards and beyond this target, which was achieved in 2010, five years ahead of its deadline – a fact that went eerily uncelebrated.
(13) Google's Street View imagery takes users on a 360-degree virtual tour of Namie's eerily quiet streets, its earthquake-damaged buildings and the overturned cars and fishing boats resting where they were deposited by the tsunami.
(14) I get to tell my story and not keep it bottled up.” She continued, “Other brave survivors’ eerily familiar stories have inspired me to share my story that rape isn’t always a stranger in the bushes.” Here is the 21-year-old woman’s full statement to the court: “His life is ruined.” Oh yeah, and it’s not like my life isn’t ruined or anything.
(15) Afterwards, Col Needham, the IMDb chief, said that, eerily, he had been having a conversation on this very subject with Shirley MacLaine, who had asked what would happen if a mistake was made.
(16) It’s incredible that no teacher ever caught us huddled up on the benches near the softball field exchanging papers or realized all of our work was eerily similar.
(17) In the five months since David Cameron and Nick Clegg went public with their relationship, we have discovered the men have more in common than just their ages, expensive educations and eerily smooth complexions.
(18) Maria Bamford With her high-pitched voice and eerily precise impressions, the intensity of Maria Bamford’s comedy isn’t always apparent at first glance.
(19) Anthony Atamanuik’s portrayal of Trump – breathtakingly brutal and eerily accurate – was hilarious at first, but over time, even he seemed to get sick of the baseless bravado and pumpkin-colored skin.
(20) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.