(adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The last 13 years, no, make that 30, had taught me not to hope," he said dryly.
(2) You’re not the first person to be let down by Boris Johnson,” a Tory grandee once dryly remarked when I had to stand in for BoJo at some obscure seminar.
(3) She promises to send me some chapters and when I ask if she has a title yet, Haze answers dryly, half-smiling, teasing I think.
(4) Putin is not very popular in the US,” one party veteran operative dryly observed.
(5) A well-scripted and dryly-delivered gag allows the advert to do exactly what it's designed to do - highlight the idea that our brains don't function very well when we're dehydrated, while positioning the advertised product as the solution.
(6) People set to lose their jobs in cascades from April say dryly: "I'm about to join the big society."
(7) He later commented, dryly, that his critics "dismissed my ideas by referring to me as a poet".
(8) Cleese sums up the affair best, observing dryly, "I always felt we won that one by behaving better than the Christians."
(9) When Steel was launching his parliamentary career back in the 60s, Scotland's first minister was a choir boy in Steel's father's church – "an angelic cherub", he offers dryly.
(10) (For his part, Clooney has dryly said that he's grateful to have Heslov around because "he's a magnet for all the paparazzi – he soaks it up".)
(11) Three films into his career, he has already established a recognisable sensibility (dryly funny, inquisitive, plangent) and been honoured with a retrospective at the Irish Film Institute .
(12) And," she adds dryly, recalling the urgent support required by one child's family earlier this morning, "we're quite busy at the moment, really."
(13) "The window for accessing that academy money was about two weeks in January," Renshaw says dryly, "and nobody was told about it."
(14) "I disagreed with him on almost everything," Willis says dryly.
(15) As for the potential impact of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , Mngxitama said dryly:: "In South Africa we are not persuaded by films.
(16) That information, which came by way of a government budget analysis that dryly noted that the NFL’s 2013 revenues of $9.2bn exceed San Francisco’s total annual budget, added insult to injury for residents of the city already feeling inconvenienced and alienated by an expensive, star-studded spectacle that is increasing traffic, disrupting public transportation and shutting down streets.
(17) Faisal's lines are smartly written and dryly delivered, which at least allows him wit and dignity, though he gets none of his real-life action.
(18) I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book Hard Choices,” the former secretary of state replied dryly.
(19) While Pellegrini has dryly laughed off his ignorance by apologising for not being able to score four goals at the home of the European champions, privately he may feel otherwise.
(20) When he finished a job, he’d “sign” his nickname into the deadwax between the music and the label – either Pecko, Pecko Duck, Porky, or his most famous inscription, “A Porky Prime Cut” – and add dryly humorous phrases.