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What does drolly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a droll, odd or humorous manner.
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The arresting title drolly indicates the almost Manichean worldview espoused by Ray Wylie Hubbard, grizzled veteran of the Texas singer-songwriter scene.
Parliamentarianism, writes Mr. Barry OBrien drolly, was apparently becoming a respectable thing.
By contrast, the drolly philosophical title-track describes Adam's life as free from worry  or fear, but wonders where, without danger and temptation, lies his nobility?
Larissa repeated her drolly jocular request, adding that Isis was the name of a terrorist organisation.
Partridge woodpeckers flocked in, drolly jollying each other and making much talk, sotto voce.
Wilfrid Almendra unfurls a section of glimmering Arizonian desert, replaying in a drolly literal manner the poetic notion of the painted desert.

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