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dryly, drily, adv.|ˈdraɪlɪ|
[f. dry a. + -ly2. The former spelling is more analogical: cf. shyly, slyly, also dryness.]
1. In a dry manner or state; without moisture.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 216 Walke thou weatly, walke thou dryly. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. i. 176 Your old virginity, is like one of our French wither'd peares: it lookes ill, it eates drily.
2. Without emotion, sympathy, or cordiality, coldly, frigidly: see dry a. 13.
1622Bacon Hen. VII (J.), Conscious to himself how dryly the King had been used by his council. 1693Dryden Juvenal i. 113 Virtue is but drily Prais'd, and Sterves. 1809G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 392 Saying drily, but civilly, that he should come. 1861Wilson & Geikie Mem. E. Forbes iv. 115 His sympathy was but dryly expressed.
3. With quiet sarcasm or caustic humour: see dry a. 14.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xvi, He was bouerdyng all the long daye..So dryely that no man might espye So sober he was in his countenaunce. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 14 a, A iolly lustie olde Gentleman, that will winke, and laugh, and ieast drily. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, ‘You saw me, neighbour Glover, at the beginning of the fray?’ ‘I saw you after the end of it, neighbour’, answered the Glover, drily. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. i. iv. §16. 10 The style of Bentley was sometimes humorous and dryly sarcastic.
4. In a bare or plain style, without embellishment, baldly; in a dull or uninteresting style or manner: see dry a. 16–18.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 103 Which for being so drily written, made them..desirous to know the occasion. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 114 Some dryly plain..Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 1759Goldsm. Bee, Augustan Age (Globe) 414/2 The poet either drily didactive..or triflingly volatile. 1836Whately Chr. Evid. xi, The miracles..are all related briefly, calmly, and dryly, and almost with an air of indifference. |