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Dumbly

adverb

In a stupid manner. Synonyms: densely, obtusely.

In an inarticulate manner.

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"Dumbly" Quotes from Famous Books

... moon rose at last out of the summer haze, he had laid his instrument aside and was lying with his head on his arms and his face to the rising glory. They watched it dumbly in the silence of goodfellowship, till at last it topped the willows and shone in a broad, silver streak across the lake right up to the ...

— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... plead the alternative of carrying out Mrs. Trevor's theory of education or of resigning his position in favour of some sycophant even more time-serving? But he had kept silent.... Doggie stopped short and looked at Phineas with eyes dumbly questioning ...

— The Rough Road • William John Locke

... in the boat. I had noticed these dumbly before, but now I drew them eagerly forth from the bottom, and quickly fitted them into the oarlocks. They were stout, ashen blades, unusually large for the craft in which they had been stowed, yet workable. The boat itself was a mere shell, scarcely capable ...

— Wolves of the Sea • Randall Parrish

... On the third afternoon she left the hospital early and went to St. Paul's. She chose again the dusk beneath the gallery, and she prayed dumbly, ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... loosened waves of her black hair, had for him all the remoteness that surrounded her memory; and yet, though he knew it not, the appeal she made to him now, and had made long ago, was that he recognised in her, however dumbly, a creature born, like himself, with the power to experience the ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

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