cooly
Americannoun
plural
cooliesExample Sentences
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Andrea Pirlo cooly clipped one past Joe Hart as Italy beat England on penalties in the Euro 2012 quarter-final.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026
The Porto forward cooly tapped it into an empty net.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2020
"Some women, it is said, like to cook," author Peg Bracken cooly observed in the introduction to her 1960 bestseller.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2020
The lone sympathetic figure in “The Hunt” is a cool, preternaturally capable blonde nicknamed Snowball, cooly played by Betty Gilpin with studied ennui and a monotonal Mississippi accent.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2020
When a lion charged their party, it was Marcela who leveled her gun and cooly shot the animal.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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