airily

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"Besides"--airily--"mebbe I shan't git the feet kind, anyhow; I want the best.

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  1. In an airy or gay manner; gaily; jauntily. Fanny bade her father good-night, and whisked off airily. Dickens, Little Dorrit.
  2. Lightly; delicately: as, airily wrought details.

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  • Of course," went on Mr. Pawket, airily--"of course I never done figurin' like that when I was a boy. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • "It is the fashion to treat it airily, but if people only knew what an awful curse it is, I think they would feel ashamed to be 'moderate' and indifferent about it I don't mean to treat it or anything that brings harm and suffering 'moderately,'" returned Hadria. —  The Daughters of Danaus
  • "We'll be back in ten minutes All right," said Henry cheerfully; "wish I was going with you The other laughed airily, and gaining the quay, set off with the silent old man by his side. —  The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant
  • As he approached closer to the man barring his path he relapsed into a walk and opened a parley in English that except for the slightest of accents had nothing in it of France, where he had long been the comrade of compatriots to this preposterous savage with the manners of medieval Provence when footpads lived upon Damoiselle Picoree My good fellow," said he airily, as one might open with a lackey, "I protest I am in a hurry, for my presence makes itself much desired elsewhere. —  Doom Castle
  • I am Ernest Defarge It is all the same," said the spy, airily, but discomfited too: "good day Good day!" —  A Tale of Two Cities
 

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