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  • adverb in a chilly manner

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chilly +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Little could be seen by the two travellers who sat huddled chillily in wraps and rugs, the soles of their feet burning or freezing on tin foot-warmers — seen either of the cast-iron sky, over which drifted lower, looser bulges of cloud, or of the bare, flattish country through which the train ran.

    The Way Home 2003

  • He smiled -- somewhat chillily, it must be admitted -- and whispered, his speaking voice being shut off by the garrote.

    The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

  • Of course a lady gets used to that, working in a department store, "she said, chillily; then repented swiftly and begged:" Oh, I _didn't_ mean to be snippy, Billy.

    Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Of course a lady gets used to that, working in a department store, "she said, chillily; then repented swiftly and begged:" Oh, I didn't mean to be snippy, Billy.

    Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

  • The wind was blowing chillily north-westward that night on the other side of our ant-hill shelter.

    Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

  • Feeling I was being taken on, I replied rather chillily:

    Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

  • The slow beats of the bell echoed chillily in the hushed apartment.

    A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

  • She was ever gloomy, unsympathising, carping, but she worked herself to death for those whose love she chillily repulsed.

    Autobiographical Sketches Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • She was ever gloomy, unsympathising, carping, but she worked herself to death for those whose love she chillily repulsed.

    Autobiographical Sketches Besant, Annie 1885

  • "Did you have a pleasant walk?" asked Mrs. Bowen, a breath more chillily than she had asked if they had a pleasant drive.

    Indian Summer William Dean Howells 1878

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