airily

Example Sentences

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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

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

I spoke with her teacher about both of these issues, and she airily said things were now fine socially and was nitpicky about my daughter’s academics.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2020

Although he began his speech airily, it doesn’t end that way.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black