Translations for „drolly“ in the English » German Dictionary

drol·ly [ˈdrəʊli, Am ˈdroʊli] ADV

drolly

drollig

drolly

komisch

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

They throw the emphasis on to the individual performances, and occasionally, drolly, close in to frame a scene like an enormous pair of inverted commas.

www.spectator.co.uk

The illustrations, as usual, are drolly appealing.

en.wikipedia.org

He drolly cites survey results showing that 80% of professors in the humanities and social sciences describe themselves as liberals.

www.macleans.ca

She queried -- bitingly and drolly -- the role of women, religion, marriage and wealth, in ways that no one before her had attempted, and no one since has surpassed.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

It's nowhere near lifelike, but there's something drolly meta about using such high-powered tech to simulate such mundane activities.

www.nzherald.co.nz

The shameless resource with which the knight wriggles out of every scrape is drolly heightened by this refusal to change gear.

www.independent.co.uk

Because, however drolly the situation is presented, the fact is not to be got over that the lady seriously supposes her husband to be in league with another man.

fortnightlyreview.co.uk

His role as arena-filling performer (or "megastar", as he later quips, drolly implying an incongruity to the label) is hardly the only aspect of his career, though.

drownedinsound.com

My lord, it's a drolly amusing exchange.

www.smh.com.au