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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He was beaten by McIlroy in a play-off last year, but put himself in position to avenge that defeat as McIlroy's stone-cold putter loosened his grip on the tournament.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
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
“The math is a stone-cold fact,” Anderson says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
Plus, coming into “Dune: Prophecy” as a stone-cold uninitiate is a challenge for which the script compensates using a combination of summary via narration and a brief, expository title card.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024
They were sitting together on the patio near the motel’s stone-cold gas-powered fire pit.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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
There was an ambivalent, if not stone cold, attitude towards the beefy Californian.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
“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
Columnist Peggy Noonan wrote that Santos was "a stone cold liar who effectively committed election fraud."
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
Standing straight, hands at his sides and stone cold, he told me, “The manager owes Bodega. We’re going to your place. You have to change clothes.”
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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