英语词汇“airily”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adv

When you do something airily, you do it in a casual, offhanded way. You might hide your excitement at meeting a movie star by airily saying, "Oh, hi."

If you speak or behave airily, you give the impression that you don't really care. If a local politician responds airily to a citizen's legitimate concerns about crime, she's likely to suffer some criticism for not taking her constituents seriously enough. Airily comes from airy, originally defined as "with ostentatious air."

WORD FAMILY

airy: airier, airiest, airily, airiness+/air: aired, airing, airless, airlike, airs, airy, midair/aired: unaired/airing: airings/airless: airlessly/airs: airss/midair: midairs

USAGE EXAMPLES

“I don’t care if you get hurt,” she responded airily.

New York Times(Oct 19, 2016)

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

Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(1958)

"People were literally breaking their necks with the selfie sticks over there, so I came off really quite normal doing this," she says airily.

BBC(Jul 12, 2016)

adv in a flippant manner

this cannot be airily explained to your children

Syn

flippantly

单词	airily
释义	airily (once / 4696 pages) adv When you do something airily, you do it in a casual, offhanded way. You might hide your excitement at meeting a movie star by airily saying, "Oh, hi." If you speak or behave airily, you give the impression that you don't really care. If a local politician responds airily to a citizen's legitimate concerns about crime, she's likely to suffer some criticism for not taking her constituents seriously enough. Airily comes from airy, originally defined as "with ostentatious air." WORD FAMILY airy: airier, airiest, airily, airiness+/air: aired, airing, airless, airlike, airs, airy, midair/aired: unaired/airing: airings/airless: airlessly/airs: airss/midair: midairs USAGE EXAMPLES “I don’t care if you get hurt,” she responded airily. New York Times(Oct 19, 2016) “Tell them the truth if you like,” responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away. Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(1958) "People were literally breaking their necks with the selfie sticks over there, so I came off really quite normal doing this," she says airily. BBC(Jul 12, 2016) adv in a flippant manner this cannot be airily explained to your children Syn flippantly
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