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adv. - Lacking in moisture.

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  • She has an instinctive awareness of and a photographer's eye for visual detail which makes the film cold, bleak, and aridly beautiful.
  • Adjective : arid land; an arid climate. ,arid farmland. ,an arid treatment of an exciting topic
  • As the Birtles goal drought wore aridly on through the winter and into parched spring, pop stars from Midge Ure to Mungo Jerry grouped together and recorded a charity...
  • They were all there, aridly complete, the limitations of the lady to whom she was helping Lindsay to bind himself without a gleam of possibility of escape or a rift...
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