Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without heat; with a moderate degree of cold: as, the wind blew coolly through the trees.
- With a moderate sensation of cold.
- Without haste or passion; calmly; deliberately: as, the design was formed coolly and executed with firmness.
- In a cool or indifferent manner; not cordially; carelessly; disrespectfully: as, he was coolly received at court.
- With quiet presumption or impudence; nonchalantly; impudently: as, he coolly took the best for himself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Coolish; cool.
- adverb In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
cool ,unpanicked orcollected manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a composed and unconcerned manner
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Examples
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To tell him what she thought of him in coolly considered, cold-measured terms?
CHAPTER 10 2010
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Rookie Anthony Carter, again coolly filling in for Hardaway, had 10 points and 13 assists, a Heat franchise playoff record.
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Even his name is coolly, absurdly, missing one of its Rs.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Even his name is coolly, absurdly, missing one of its Rs.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Never maintain an argument with heat and clamor, though you think or know yourself to be in the right: but give your opinion modestly and coolly, which is the only way to convince; and, if that does not do, try to change the conversation, by saying, with good humor, “We shall hardly convince one another, nor is it necessary that we should, so let us talk of something else.”
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Priest Captain's party, in whose chest was a great hole made by a spear-thrust -- and at a sign from Tizoc one of our men stepped aside, and with a blow of his heavy sword coolly mashed in the wounded man's skull, and so finished him.
The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier
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During the whole course of the journey both Lemm and Lavretsky spoke little to one another; each was occupied with his own thoughts, and each was glad not to be disturbed by the other; and they parted rather coolly, which is often the way, however, with friends in Russia.
Chapter XXVIII 1917
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Theriere was upon her, and then, quickly, he mastered himself, for he recalled his coolly thought-out plan based on what Divine had told him of that clause in the will of the girl's departed grandparent which stipulated that the man who shared the bequest with her must be the choice of both herself and her father.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Barlow turned in after him but hesitated when Kendric called coolly:
Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Jackson Gregory 1912
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In fact, the commanders of these steamships, being accustomed to encounter continually all sorts of emergencies, difficulties, and dangers, get in the habit of taking every thing very coolly, which is, indeed, always the best way.
Rollo on the Atlantic Jacob Abbott 1841
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