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
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
And Cherundolo has gotten them here with a breezy manner and an impish smile masking the competitive soul of a stone-cold killer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
But behind us, where our parents sat, there was nothing but stone-cold silence.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
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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