[
UK
/kˈəʊldli/
]
[ US /ˈkoʊɫdɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈkoʊɫdɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
lacking warmth of feeling; in a cold, unemotional manner
he addressed her coldly
How To Use coldly In A Sentence
- Dr. Orkborne, much incommoded by this second interruption, coldly begged to know his pleasure. Camilla
- Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss; she is always self-possessed; every move of mine is coldly monitored.
- Mount Kazbek rose coldly white against the darkness of the threatening sky. Ardath
- After all, as the Home Office coldly points out, the law must be enforced.
- The bonxie surveyed me coldly, raising dark wings and issuing a harsh double croak from its hooked, halfopen beak. Times, Sunday Times
- A look of vexation or a word coldly spoken, or a little help thoughtlessly withheld, may produce long issues of regret. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
- They said hi back, but coldly and with a smile that seemed unfriendly and strange.
- Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars. DARKWATER
- Pin-sharp and coldly factual, the images are all the more valuable for being entirely unposed. The Times Literary Supplement
- The designs were pure, austere and coldly beautiful.