[
UK
/kˈuːli/
]
[ US /ˈkuɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈkuɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a composed and unconcerned manner
without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher
How To Use coolly In A Sentence
- Mentally recollecting myself, I took a deep breath and said coolly, ‘Andrew, please leave.’
- Do we really believe that people who are capable of such horrifically violent crimes are going to be so coolly logical and rational?
- Women who'd long been pensioned off the catwalk are emerging reborn in their fifties and sixties, as coolly desirable, quietly, but confidently shimmering with big-name campaigns.
- without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher
- Sometimes the songs have a folksy sway, cool melodic lines unfolding with squeezebox sounds, soft basslines and understated percussion around them; sometimes, they coolly shuffle like the bouncier songs of Madeleine Peyroux. Half Seas Over: Half Seas Over
- His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
- dastard," but he coolly waited until Haldane had finished, and then asked in his former tone: A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
- As he coolly, incisively probes away, his questions elicit fascinating personal revelations, generating feelings of anger, guilt, panic and emptiness.
- He sits, away from the hustle and bustle of on-field activity, coolly calculating the options.
- So much so that, in meeting her, an edge of brittle insecurity appears faintly visible beneath her ageless face and coolly cordial manner.