stone-cold
adjective
completely cold
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stone cold
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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stone cold
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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
Through that rigorous run, Tinsley evolved from a fresh-faced leader into a stone-cold ace, while Terry transformed from an untested freshman to a rising star.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 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
This includes contributing guitar on the sizzling new Duran Duran single "Black Moonlight," a collaboration with Nile Rodgers that sounds like a stone-cold disco-funk classic, and on reworks of several older Duran Duran tracks.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2023
AMOS: Meet the once-great Harry Potter, now a stone-cold Ministry man.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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