stone-cold
adjective
completely cold
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stone coldUnfeeling, insensible, as in That sad story left her stone cold. This analogy was already used by Shakespeare in Henry V (2:3): “Cold as any stone.”
stone-cold
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Why lean into Curry’s “nice guy” off-court image when the man is a stone-cold killer on the court?
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
This latest war of words adds to the pair's tumultuous feud, with Trump in 2019 calling the mayor "a stone-cold loser" and Sir Sadiq accusing him of stirring up far-right politics.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
“The math is a stone-cold fact,” Anderson says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
One way to view the meteoric growth of women’s college basketball is through the career arc of its current protagonist: Caitlin Clark, the University of Iowa’s stone-cold mad bomber.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
I’m not exactly a fan of vertigo-inducing roller coasters, but at least it’s a break from the stone-cold, silent tomb of my house.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Michael Jackson’s celebrity is so blinding, his music so compelling, that it cloaks him with an almost impenetrable shield from the truth: He was a stone cold pedophile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
“To be 21 years old coming in and be stone cold at the plate - I’ve never seen someone come up here and not chase pitches around the zone.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
There will never be another Mike Leach, a stone cold weirdo who didn’t want to change to be more like other football coaches, and who eventually forced those football coaches to be more like him.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Ms Hills says there was no heating on the ward, and the radiators were "stone cold".
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2022
She takes a sip of her tea, now stone cold.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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