airily

Example Sentences

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This led me to be very wary of people airily predicting that democracy was finished, and made me alive to the way that, paradoxically, such nightmares can actually damage democracy.

From Salon • May 7, 2025

Johnson talked of “our concerns with the governance of the state of California,” which he airily blamed for “complicity ... in the scope of disaster.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

He was kidding on the square about being a streaming hoarder, and he’s got company among fellow celebrities, including those who used to airily claim they had time to make TV but not watch it.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

They complain, as many people in their age cohort do, rather airily about “capitalism.”

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2021

An hour ago she had declined to go to Meeting, saying airily that she and her grandfather had seldom attended divine service, except for the Christmas Mass. What an uproar she had caused!

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare