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I nodded dumbly and he slit the envelope.
Examples of dumbly
dumbly
I pause, and stare dumbly at the sea for a moment, parsing and reparsing the sign.
From the theatlantic.com
The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night.
From the time.com
We just dumbly bought some goods from the West and spent everything here.
From the time.com
Without question 2006 was the year of the dumbly-named celebrity baby.
From the hecklerspray.com
Steve whom she had dumbly, pathetically, imagined might have a clone.
From the express.co.uk
I very dumbly chugged a little bit of gasoline and blew it into a torch and my head was on fire.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
It takes no words to dumbly smash a watermelon, or to grunt in mockery of the speech-impaired.
From the newsweek.com
It's an electricity meter, and in most cases, it just sits there, dumbly ticking off power consumption.
From the businessweek.com
He dumbly asks Jennifer Lopez if she knows what to expect.
From the newsday.com
- In a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone"
- In an inarticulate manner; "I nodded dumbly and he slit the envelope"
