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coldly

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Etymology

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From Middle English coldliche , caldeliche , perhaps borrowed from Old Norse kaldliga ("coldly"); equivalent to cold +‎ -ly . Displaced Middle English colde ("coldly"), from Old English cealde ("coldly").

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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coldly (comparative more coldly, superlative most coldly)

  1. In a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles , volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82:
      'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.
    • 1958 February, David Gunston, "Railways on the Screen", in Railway Magazine, page 90:
      Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, [...].
    • 2026 September 4, Edward Helmore, Maya Yang, "Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocked again", in The Guardian ‎[1] , archived from the original on 5 September 2026:
      Prosecutors argued in opening statements that Clancy had "coldly and efficiently executed" her children, doing so with "no hesitation, with deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity and cruelty" after she "drew her husband out of the house, their father, so that she had the opportunity and the time to carry out these murders".

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in a cold or uncaring manner

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