Dumbly

//ˈdʌmli//

Synonyms for "dumbly" (4 found)

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

For as the young people went by with their despatch-boxes, awfully glad to be free, proud too, dumbly, of stepping this famous pavement, joy of a kind, cheap, tinselly, if you like, but all the same rapture, flushed their faces.

Source: tatoeba (9593853)

On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.

Source: wiktionary

I handed it dumbly to my friend, who had the grace to giggle.

Source: wiktionary

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