Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mutely; silently; without speech or sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In silence; mutely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in a
dumb (meaningsilent ) manner;mutely orsilently
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an inarticulate manner
- adverb in a stupid manner
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Examples
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He looked at me dumbly from a face that might have belonged to a man of sixty, so furrowed, tightly drawn, and full of pain it was.
Revolution 2010
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He looked at me dumbly from a face that might have belonged to a man of sixty, so furrowed, tightly drawn, and full of pain it was.
Revolution 1910
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They want you to give up and go back to dumbly stroking that shiny screen, pausing intermittently to wipe the drool from your chin.
I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling | Charlie Brooker 2011
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As he mounts, she is overcome, hiding slippery, paddles or slaps water dumbly as though she can go somewhere.
Anti-microbial Love Meg Pokrass 2011
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Then, Waddy said that since there weren't any girls there, we should all write a song and James and I kind of looked at him dumbly and asked what it should be about.
Mike Ragogna: Sing It Loud: Chatting with k.d. lang, JD Souther and Bobby Long, Plus a Beginners Audio Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011
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While I feigned confusion and smiled dumbly, I slipped out the memory card and eventually handed the soldier a camera with no photos of Feyzieh or protests at all, just a small cache of innocent pictures on its local memory drive — a few of monuments and street scenes in Tehran, and one of me playing air guitar in my hotel room.
Among the Mullahs 2010
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Mostly people watch Faux Noise and dumbly believe they are actually seeing news instead of knowing it is "entertainment" ala Rupert Murdock. [tabloid crap for the unaware].
Democratic senators urge action on Obama's judicial nominees 2010
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In this case, dumbly finger-pointing his own golden egg-laying goose, CNN, as being Jewish controlled.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Sanchez Must Go, But Will CNN Have the Guts to Do It Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010
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Now he turned around and looked dumbly at his brother, his mouth agape.
The Company Man Stephen Carter 2011
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In this case, dumbly finger-pointing his own golden egg-laying goose, CNN, as being Jewish controlled.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Sanchez Must Go, But Will CNN Have the Guts to Do It Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010
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