(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.
Jauntily
Definition:
(adv.) In a jaunty manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Above their noisy cries, I can just make out a tiny goldcrest delivering his jauntily rhythmic song by the church gate.
(2) She jauntily crossed the room as Kelly tried to explain what it all meant for the wider region.
(3) Zane, also favouring black, also 16, was wearing a lot more makeup than Lydia, and had finished off his outfit with a top hat whose brim was jauntily stuck with Broadway ticket stubs.
(4) Jauntily yellow-jacketed stewards are flogging soft toys, emblazoned with the words VAMPIRES SUCK MY BLOOD in gothic script.
(5) Arsène Wenger has talked, with no little resignation, of how he must live in a “permanent tribunal”, his existence marked by kneejerk reactions and the extremes of emotion but this was an occasion when the verdict was jauntily positive.
(6) Still, distaste for the idea of what used to be jauntily called Coalition 2:0 runs deep.
(7) The national anthems Spain's skips along jauntily, in a faintly juntaesque way, while the Russian national anthem has enough testosterone to put hairs on any teen's chest.
(8) The group of six, caught on CCTV as they strode jauntily through Gatwick airport ahead of a Thomas Cook flight to Turkey on 8 October last year, ended up fighting for Islamic State (Isis).
(9) But it isn't just children who have found themselves drawn to the show's Pythonesque sketches, which skip jauntily through the books' trademark themes such as the Rotten Romans and Groovy Greeks up to the Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians.
(10) She makes tea in the shiny clean kitchen of the holiday-let flat – a place she describes jauntily as “her dungeon” as she leads me down through the cold corridors, but which is remarkably mundane, with clean, white walls, a couple of small bedrooms and a smell of clean laundry.