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Definition of Airily
1. Adverb. In a flippant manner. "This cannot be airily explained to your children"
Definition of Airily
1. adv. In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly.
Definition of Airily
1. Adverb. In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; flippantly. ¹
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Definition of Airily
1. in an airy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airily
Literary usage of Airily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jack London and Hawaii by Charmian London (1918)
"... by airily stating that Bert was the son of the famous leper of Kauai!
Again referring to that beloved scrap-heap, the " Snark," there's a comedian in ..."
2. The Warwickshire Avon by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Alfred Parsons (1892)
"You are to believe that our feet trod airily across those meadows. And at the
cottage, old Mrs. Baker, last living descendant of the Hatha- ways, ..."
3. The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland: And Choice Selections in Prose from by Richard Nagle (1887)
"Merrily, merrily round and round, airily, airily round and round, To the sweetest
music in Ireland's ground. The heart's glad laugh and the ..."
4. K & E Merchant's (calculating) Slide Rule by Kueffel & Esser co., New York (1915)
"She let a delirious patient escape from the ward another night and go airily down
the fire-escape before she discovered what had happened! ..."
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