dourly's Usage Examples:

Ivy Compton-Burnett had one character conclude dourly of another two that "you are both of you innocent though it is an innocence.

sacrifice of the rational and individual side'; and Freud for his part had dourly noted that 'this extraordinary plasticity of mental developments is not.

" Lane Crockett of The Times found that the film "so dourly straight-forward that the mystery has no kick.

The effect is a haunting blend of intimacy (often dourly comic) and (with roles deliberately cast regardless of age and looks) objectifying.

They begin talking about women, and the unwed squire dourly declares that there cannot be more than nine good women in the world.

Rayns described the film as Corbucci "dourly going through the motions of the Continental revenge Western.

Citizen King" was Henry Cow's first political statement, and they sing "dourly (and cryptically) of the gulf separating democracy's pomp and spectacle.

underprivileged background named Billie-Jo Truluck (Joan Goodfellow), who dourly gives them the sexual favors they want.

lacked a final measure of inspiration and originality; it was a little dourly Bergian.

boss, Saavedra agrees to participate and finds that the advertising is a dourly unappealing litany of the regime's abuses created by an organization that.

"'Invasion USA' might actually be fun in a campy way if it weren't so dourly exploitative", and called Norris "an actor whose most evocative facial expression.

Serge Alexandre Stavisky François Périer as Albert Borelli, Alexandre's dourly efficient and ever-present lawyer Anny Duperey as Arlette, Alexandre's glamorous.

raise and implied that something strange is going on in the attic, Dussell dourly comments that it is just a matter of time before they are discovered.

Indians batted dourly to save the match.

Pasupathi dourly suggests Singaperumal is getting old and rusty.

lost a brother in the partisan war of 1943-45, Piero Trotti is cynical yet dourly optimistic.

which was shown to Taylor before it was made public; the State Department dourly announced that "it appears to represent some improvement to the situation".

the hearings, as The Washington Post would later write, "the senators sat dourly alongside one another in a long row, a visual suggestive of co-defendants.

Synonyms:

glumly; sullenly;