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
Instead, it exalts vegetarian textures: tackily chewy barley, softly crunchy cashews, and airily crisp panko.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022
He was kidding on the square about being a streaming hoarder, and he’s got company among fellow celebrities, including those who used to airily claim they had time to make TV but not watch it.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021
Taylor said airily, “Sir, I would assume that if we haven’t heard from the general it is obviously because he has nothing to report.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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