In a dry manner, dryly. (See compounds 2.)

In a reserved or distant manner; coldly, disdainfully. Obsolete.

Without emotion, sympathy, or cordiality, coldly, frigidly: see dry, adj. 13.

In an unconcerned manner; without anxiety or concern; with indifference.

In an aloof manner; so as to be detached from or distant towards others, often while demonstrating a (disproportionate) sense of one's own…