Dryly

Dry′ly

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adv.

In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

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adv.

1.

Without moisture.

2.

Coldly; frigidly; without affection.

3.

Severely; sarcastically.

4.

Barrenly; without embellishment; without any thing to enliven, enrich or entertain.

dryly ‎(comparative more dryly, superlative most dryly)

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.”

in a dry manner