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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

... Dumbly she stood and watched Biddy lay the inanimate figure back upon the pillows. Isabel had sunk into a state of exhaustion ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

... dispersed, hidden, disorganised, undiscovered, unsuspected even by themselves, the samurai of Utopia are in this world, the motives that are developed and organised there stir dumbly here and stifle in ten thousand ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... a telephone waited: McGuire sensed this but dumbly, and the way to that room was long to his stumbling feet. He was blinded: his mind would not function: he saw only those fluttering things, and the moonlight on their wings, and the shadows that took them so ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various

... before, told him a story about a prisoner who escaped in exactly that way. Stoliker was suspicious of the good intentions of the man he had in charge; he was altogether too polite and good-natured; and, besides, the constable dumbly felt that the prisoner was a much ...

— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... as an impecunious young man who could make a tweed suit last longer than one would have believed possible; they had called him "Fill" and helped him in more than usually lean times with small loans: but to-night they had eyed the waistcoat dumbly and shrank ...

— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse

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