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  • adverb In a brittle way.

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Examples

  • "I always avoid the hours when the little darlings are out," she says brittly, then pays for her cappuccino and leaves in a hurry.

    I Want Candy: New Million Deli Serves Millions 1998

  • She knew quite well he was not talking about her professional experience and hot colour stained her skin, her eyes widening and darkening, and then gathering herself together she said brittly, "Maybe not before ... but now, yes ..."

    Desire for Revenge Jordan, Penny 1997

  • If anything, it gave a nice brittly atonal edge to our lovemaking.

    The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza Block, Lawrence 1980

  • Perhaps the reason is that she has avoided such blatant Oscar-bait: her two agents, to whom she paid breathy acknowledgement, have carefully steered her career on a shrewd course between the brittly aristocratic Keira Knightley and the wilfully eccentric Helena Bonham Carter, and she has easily outshone them both.

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

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