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- r in a stupid manner
- r in an inarticulate manner
I nodded dumbly and he slit the envelope
- The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original .
- We just dumbly bought some goods from the West and spent everything here.
- Their character motivation is sketchy, their verbal wit scant; at times a scene revs to its climax and, instead of issuing some clever deflating retort, the actor will gaze dumbly .