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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
icily
adverb
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▪ They are all blond and call themselves Gang, without the definite article, which has an icily Germanic ring.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Icily

Icily \I"ci*ly\, adv. In an icy manner; coldly.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more.
--Tennyson.

Wiktionary
icily

adv. 1 In the manner of ice; with a cold or chilling effect. 2 (context figuratively English) In an uncaring manner.

WordNet
icily

adv. in a cold and icy manner; "`Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily"

Usage examples of "icily".

Eirik said icily, thinking he had little to thank his brother for this night.

Then she turned slowly and her violet eyes flashed icily, remarkably beautiful eyes for an old crone, he thought irrelevantly.

But she deliberately looked away when he questioned her icily about having disobeyed his orders and leaving the keep and about exactly what section of the forest she had been lost in.

Ellorien blinked, icily sullen, then sniffed dismissively and sipped at her wine.

The Prince paused, almost, I think, to see if his words had struck home, but Elliania remained icily silent in her stern contemplation of him.

I pushed all my concerns aside and focused icily on attempting to kill him.

Precedents icily written on high Challenge the Tentatives hot to rebel.

The wind had picked up since she had left the office and it whipped icily at her exposed ankles as she hurried towards her small Victorian house.

Klaus seemed icily calm np there, speaking now with cold precision-most unusual for him.

Katie Lee said icily, perceiving that he must have deserted the theater at the first sign of fire.

Bayard asked icily, still staring above me at whatever pattern he saw in the stars.

Rivenhall arrived in time to hear the end of a dialogue between the three servants so icily civil, so bristling with veiled innuendo as to terrify poor Lady Ombersley.

Then came the cosmic catastrophe which put man at the mercy of the giant spiders, icily intelligent conquerors armed with awesome mind powers.

The rain, icily cold, battered and smashed at her with such force that it stung the skin of her face.

The stars twinkled icily in the heavens, mocking her with their mute serenity.