"dumbly" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "dumb + -ly",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From dumb + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dumbly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dumbly",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 147:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 32:",
          "text": "I handed it dumbly to my friend, who had the grace to giggle.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a silent way."
      ],
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        [
          "silent",
          "silent"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "silently"
        }
      ]
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In an unsmart way."
      ],
      "id": "en-dumbly-en-adv-64TIu~mi",
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
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          "unsmart",
          "unsmart"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory, informal) In an unsmart way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌmli/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌmli"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dumbly"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From dumb + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dumbly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dumbly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 147:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 32:",
          "text": "I handed it dumbly to my friend, who had the grace to giggle.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a silent way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "silent",
          "silent"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "silently"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "In an unsmart way."
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        "(derogatory, informal) In an unsmart way."
      ],
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        "informal"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʌmli/"
    },
    {
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  "word": "dumbly"
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