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airily

[air-uh-lee]

adverb

  1. in a lively or breezy manner; jauntily.

  2. delicately; lightly.



airily

/ ˈɛəɪɪ /

adverb

  1. in a jaunty or high-spirited manner

  2. in a light or delicate manner

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • unairily adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of airily1

First recorded in 1760–70; see airy, -ly ( def. )
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This led me to be very wary of people airily predicting that democracy was finished, and made me alive to the way that, paradoxically, such nightmares can actually damage democracy.

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I told my story light and airily, but it was heavy when it happened.

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The play’s snotty actors, meanwhile, clearly consider their foe a proletarian rube and airily patronize him.

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“I’m so tired of subjectivity/I must justify my presence by losing it.” she sang, airily, on “Female Vampire,” a 2016 single.

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Ricardo Morales, the Philadelphians’ principal clarinet, played his doleful solo with airily glowing tone, a letter from another world.

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