Synonym: dryly, laconically. Similar words: drill, mandrill, warily, verily, eerily, drilling, drill bit, wearily. Meaning: ['draɪlɪ] 
adv. in a dry laconic manner.
adv. in a dry laconic manner. 
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1 'Well, at least it's not purple,' she commented drily.
2 He swallowed drily and nodded.
3 "That is surprising." — "Hardly," I said drily.
4 He smiled drily and leaned back in his chair.
5 A royal summons, no less, Sabine thought drily.
6 Apart, she thought drily, from complete nutcases like myself.
7 She heard him dial, and speak briefly and drily, almost as though similar rescue operations landed on his doorstep every night.
8 Which, she thought drily, was probably the only welcome she'd get.
9 Barnett replied drily that Davis's best option was to feed the gingerbread to his bears.
10 He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way.
11 A subject which, I thought drily, afforded a good deal of scope for liars.
12 Never mind the hole in the ceiling,[www.Sentencedict.com]'he saiid drily.
13 "Possible," I said drily, "but not likely".
14 The lady nodded drily to me.
15 Three times a day, after meals, Stephen said drily.
16 Mike ( drily ): " Any he's going to marry her next week? ".
17 "I dare say they do," rejoined his wife drily. "And who's to say who's right?".
18 " Never mind the hole in the ceiling, " he said drily.
19 "I know it sounds silly, but when I get to the beach I feel like a kid again." "We noticed, " she said drily.
20 Charles and Lucy certainly knew how to pick their friends[sentencedict.com], she thought drily.
21 All three works on this disc are idiomatically performed and decently, if rather drily, recorded.
22 Gazing into eyes that were suddenly like warm velvet, she swallowed drily as an unbearable excitement flooded her.
23 At least he'd made some one happy, he thought drily, regretting that he'd snarled at the lad in front of him.
24 Yes, he would certainly earn his keep in this job, she thought drily.
25 The judgment we know to be mistaken, the case it supports too drily utilitarian.
26 She was probably glad that the inquisition was over too, Sabine thought drily.
27 Not much danger of his Commander letting him slip up on that, he thought drily.
28 "Allow me, sir, " Prince Andrey said in Russian drily and disagreeably to Prince Ippolit, who prevented his passing.
More similar words: drill, mandrill, warily, verily, eerily, drilling, drill bit, wearily, angrily, merrily, fire drill, quadrille, perilymph, hungrily, primarily, summarily, ordinarily, voluntarily, momentarily, temporarily, peremptorily, customarily, arbitrarily, necessarily, desultorily, quadrilateral, perfunctorily, involuntarily, satisfactorily, extraordinarily.