| 单词 | dryly |
| 释义 | dryly (once / 1356 pages) adv If you say something dryly, you say it in a funny but matter-of-fact way. Your friend's dryly humorous comments might be your favorite thing about watching soap operas with him. People who joke or remark dryly have a straight-faced delivery, even as they are saying the funniest things. You could also describe a black comedy as being dryly funny, or a character in a book as narrating dryly. The adverb dryly comes from dry, which more commonly means "not wet" than "subtly humorous" — although the humor meaning dates from the early 15th century. WORD FAMILYdry: dried, drier, dries, driest, drily, dryed, dryer, dryest, drying, dryly, dryness, drys, semi-dry+/dried: undried/drier: driers/dryer: dryers/dryness: drynesses USAGE EXAMPLESThe suspect eventually tackles the police officer, and the Post dryly and passively says that “The cops subdued him after the fiery incident.” The Guardian(Dec 06, 2016) Still, he admitted dryly, “it’s nice to have people paying attention to me and complimenting me instead of yelling at me. It’s much better.” Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) “I don’t think we were getting our money’s worth,” he said dryly. New York Times(Nov 25, 2016) adv in a dry laconic manner "I know that," he said dryly Syn drily, laconically |
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