What's the difference between dumbly and silently?

Dumbly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In silence; mutely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Look at him, dumbly stuffing six on to each hand like a useless Swiss knuckle-duster.
  • (2) Off we go again: "Bigger scandal than Enron … taxes would indicate … researched it on Google … " Just as I've resigned myself to spending the rest of the evening dumbly nodding my assent while Courtney Love details the mystifying links between Nirvana's 50m record sales and the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the car pulls up outside the Mayfair flat and Love brings the topic to a close as suddenly as it began.
  • (3) It just stares dumbly at you through the screen while its grotesquely undersized "body" pirouettes through a magical world of animals.
  • (4) All that ensues is a free to Uruguay, as Heitinga dumbly pushes Alvaro Pereira to the ground in a bid to win the ball.
  • (5) They have just dumbly insisted there is no alternative.
  • (6) In this moment she inspired only curiosity, a pale phantom, dumbly filling her day.
  • (7) May as well knock back a few Jagermeisters, unplug the autocue, and just sit there dumbly repeating whichever reality-warping meme the far right wants to go viral this week.

Silently


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a silent manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (2) The prevalence of greater than or equal to 1 mm ST-segment depression was 22% (symptomatic in 25%, and silent in 75%) and did not differ between groups with and without cardiac events.
  • (3) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
  • (4) Some features suggest an important reduction in myocardial oxygen supply, in addition to an increase in demand, as a mechanism for silent ischemic episodes occurring during daily life.
  • (5) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
  • (6) Previous studies in Ghana had shown that primary infections with Epstein-Barr virus in infants under the age of two years remain silent and evoke antibody responses different from those seen in infectious mononucleosis.
  • (7) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (8) Silent myocardial ischemia is increasingly recognized as a common phenomenon in a variety of people with coronary artery disease.
  • (9) In addition, comparison of the rates of evolution among the eight viral genes, excluding the P2 gene, revealed a rapid and roughly equal rate of silent substitution for different genes.
  • (10) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
  • (11) He stayed silent when the teacher asked him a question and afterwards I found him standing in the middle of the classroom looking totally lost as everyone ran around.
  • (12) A total of 188 ischemic episodes was observed; 163 (87%) were silent and accounted for a total ischemic duration of 5,771 minutes.
  • (13) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
  • (14) Repair within the gene was shown to be much more efficient than that in silent downstream sequences or in the genome overall.
  • (15) The non-neurosecretory interneuron L10 synthesizes a 12,000 dalton protein, whereas the silent neurosecretory cell L5 synthesizes a lower molecular weight peptide.
  • (16) To date, no systematic study on silent ischaemia in patients with demand-induced right ventricular dysfunction has been reported.
  • (17) Patients with all forms of angina, stable effort and unstable rest angina, and those with coronary artery spasm have very frequent episodes of silent myocardial ischemia during ordinary activity.
  • (18) Hypertensive subjects with other cardiovascular risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia or smoking and with ventricular extrasystoles, reflecting the presence of silent ischemia, can be considered to be at high risk of cardiac death.
  • (19) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
  • (20) These calcifications are often clinically silent, but they sometimes accompany a recurrence of the initial painful symptomatology.

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