dryly

Alternative forms

• drily

Etymology

dry +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• enPR: drīʹli, IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪ.li/

Adverb

dryly (comparative more dryly, superlative most dryly)

1. In a dry manner.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”