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Frostily

Frostily \Frost"i*ly\, adv. In a frosty manner.

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frostily

adv. In a frosty manner.

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frostily

adv. without warmth or enthusiasm; "`Come in if you have to,' he said frostily" [syn: frigidly]

Usage examples of "frostily".

Cold morning sunlight glinted on her thick glasses and glowed frostily on her apple-red cheeks.

His fists were clenched so tight he could feel the nails driving into his palms, but he made himself smile frostily at the two newsmen.

The rear-admiral bowed frostily as he was casually introduced, resenting the intimacy that had invaded his clinical, sterile control room.

Treadwell tapped keys on a memo pad, then smiled frostily at Lady Rosario.

His sword flashed frostily in the starlight with every ounce of desperate nerve and thew behind it, and man and beast went down together.

Conan rushed up the marble stair, the man above shook himself from his stupor and drew a sword that sparkled frostily in the radium light.

Dorath, Steele, and Julia glared frostily at Giogi for treating the incident so lightly, but Drone wheezed out a cackle and plopped down beside Dorath.

Mountains--the Sierras of many a fireside dream--seemed to wall in the town, and great pines stood out, sharp and clear cut, against a sky in which a moon and stars were shining frostily.

The wall is of richly coloured marble highly polished, its paneled sweep relieved by fluted columns and pilasters of distinguished grace and dignity, which glow softly and frostily in the electric light.

He says, quite rightly, she translated frostily, that next time you will be arrested for public violence.

When I undrew the curtains and looked out of bed, I saw him, in an equable temperature of respectability, unaffected by the east wind of January, and not even breathing frostily, standing my boots right and left in the first dancing position, and blowing specks of dust off my coat as he laid it down like a baby.

He turned, as Asher strode past him into the prison room again and over to the window where the detached window bar lay shining frostily in the square of moonlight on the floor.