frosty
adjective
characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold.
frostily
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a word derived from
frosty.
Example Sentences
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In Season 4, Lady Caroline resides in a Barbados retreat, where she frostily receives her children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
“Babylon” was greeted frostily at its premiere in Munich in 2012, and even more icily after it was revised and re-premiered in Berlin last year; even when Mr. Widmann fails, he fails upward.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2020
In 1993, his interview with American woman, Annie Murphy, who had a child with Bishop of Galway Eamonn Casey, ended very frostily.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2019
As she frostily explains to her unscrupulous lawyer:
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2016
As soon as I said the name of our friend, the half-blood daughter of Zeus, Hera’s eyes turned toward me frostily.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
