coldly

Etymology

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”).

adv

  1. in a cold or uncaring manner; indifferently.
    'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82

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