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airily

[air-uh-lee] / ˈɛər ə li /






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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.

From Salon May 7, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2024

Casually disdainful and airily patronizing, he is given tremendous gravitas by Harewood, a Black British actor cunningly cast against expectation as a white establishment figure who was taken to task for bigotry more than once.

From New York Times Dec. 13, 2021

They complain, as many people in their age cohort do, rather airily about “capitalism.”

From Slate Sep. 1, 2021

“Tell them the truth if you like,” responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare




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