In a standoffish manner

Usage examples of coldly.

Hearing that remark, the baron bowed coldly to Barbet and returned home, thinking that the policemen whom Nepomucene had pointed out must have come for the two impecunious authors on the upper floor.

He examined Mijnheer Beek, declared him to be fit enough to do without a nurse, suggested most strongly that he and his wife should take a short holiday and then present himself for a further check-up, refused the coffee offered him and invited her coldly to step into the dark little sitting-room with him.

He stooped and limped very much, and when he took off his black caubeen, the sharp gleam of his white hair seemed to comment coldly on those infirmities.

Cylon base star, the cognitor Cylon commander called Lucifer stared coldly at a scanner displaying the impending collision.

Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau, a coldly modern institutional setting for the number-two crime lab in the country.

Furtive, shambling creatures stared cryptically in my direction, and more normal faces eyed me coldly and curiously.

Drear shadows drooped and thickened above the Pass of Dariel,--that terrific gorge which like a mere thread seems to hang between the toppling frost-bound heights above and the black abysmal depths below,--clouds, fringed ominously with lurid green and white, drifted heavily yet swiftly across the jagged peaks where, looming largely out of the mist, the snow-capped crest of Mount Kazbek rose coldly white against the darkness of the threatening sky.

Morosini replied coldly that as the Inquisitors had, not told him for what crime I was condemned, he did not feel himself bound to share their judgment.

She regarded the doppelganger coldly, having no love for these creatures who were without selves.

They looked on coldly, not indeed apparently favouring the rebellion, but as little disposed to take part against it.

That notion would have infuriated Fett, if any such word of passion could have been applied to the coldly unfeeling logic that dictated his actions.

What gazer now with astronomic eye Could coldly count the spots within thy sphere?

Atretes stared back coldly, wishing his wrists were unshackled and he had a gladius in his hand.

Righelini, who was an honourable and spirited man, answered me coldly that the English ambassador was a man of his word, and that he had the story from his own lips.

I sat down on the front seat and coldly asked the mother why she had not come up to supper with us.