Crossword clues for coolly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coolly \Cool"ly\, adv. In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.
Coolly \Cool"ly\, a.
Coolish; cool. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) coolish; somewhat cool adv. In a cool, unpanicked or collected manner.
WordNet
adv. 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" [syn: nervelessly, nonchalantly]
Usage examples of "coolly".
After all, if we coolly consider those arguments which have been bandied about, and retorted with such eagerness and acrimony in the house of commons, and divest them of those passionate tropes and declamatory metaphors which the spirit of opposition alone had produced, we shall find very little left for the subject of dispute, and sometimes be puzzled to discover any material source of disagreement.
I challenged him to explain his reasons for refusing to give her absolution, but he closed my lips by answering very coolly that he could not betray the secrets of the confessional.
She was like a long, lightly stunned fish - made to lie coolly atwitch, but airy in the hand.
A great deal of water, remarked the brief, bitterish smile, would have to go over the dam before Phyllis Dexter--dimpled and rosy and twenty-three--could realize what it meant to have a double handful of deep-rooted fixations ripped out of your viscera or wherever they were located, and every dangling, aching, red nerve fibre of them coolly examined under a microscope.
Below, Bradden was coolly slicing a cud of chewing tobacco from a plug.
She embraced the girls coolly she had not much affection to show to any but Lord Bute and the King and made a sign for them to sit down.
We went into a closet, and shutting the door with the most serious air, without even looking at me, she undressed me, and put a cotton cap on my head, and as soon as she saw me in the water she undressed herself as coolly as possible, and without a word came into the bath.
But the owner of the heap coolly separates the animal from the vegetable, adds a little water, and drinks his chicha without ceremony.
Then he would take his own time about shooting De Coude down deliberately, coolly, and in cold blood.
I had no knowledge of human nature, no knowledge of artifice and tricks, and I could not understand how I found myself coolly witnessing such a scene, and composedly calm in the presence of two beings, one of whom I intended to kill and the other to dishonour.
I undertook to do my utmost, and I took care to address only a few words to Angela, but I directed all my gallant attentions to Nanette, who treated me as coolly as could be.
After many ablutions and a careful toilet, I thought I could skew my face, and I presented myself coolly in the drawing-room.
When the fishwife finished shouting she coolly transferred the bullheads from the tank to her basket, deftly counting them off by tens.
He had scarcely uttered the words when the duchess coolly gave him a box on the ear, which the monk received with the best grace imaginable.
As soon as I saw Leah coming in with my chocolate, smiling and gay as usual, I told her quite coolly all the exploits I had seen her executing, laying particular stress on the Straight Tree, and the curious liquid she had swallowed.