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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

Johnson talked of “our concerns with the governance of the state of California,” which he airily blamed for “complicity ... in the scope of disaster.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 2025

Instead, it exalts vegetarian textures: tackily chewy barley, softly crunchy cashews, and airily crisp panko.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2022

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

From Slate Sep. 1, 2021

Presently the chambers gave up their fair tenants one after another: each came out gaily and airily, with dress that gleamed lustrous through the dusk.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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