Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a freezing or chilling manner.

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  • adverb In a way that is freezing; with intense cold.
  • adverb figuratively With intense emotional coldness; dispassionately.

Etymologies

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freezing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I want them to be obscurely, freezingly, impossibly Belgian.

    Excerpt: I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley 2008

  • At least my own house was freezingly air-conditioned.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • At least my own house was freezingly air-conditioned.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • At least my own house was freezingly air-conditioned.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • They just left them there, and this water, of course, was in the Antarctic, it ` s freezingly cold, and they were not going to be able to survive for very long.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2010 2010

  • At least my own house was freezingly air-conditioned.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • He had at once recognized Hare-lip, although he was not wearing the waterproof in which he used to wrap himself, with freezingly hunched shoulders, during his walks in the yard.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • And yeah, he probably left it in there three weeks ago when it was blood-freezingly cold.

    sweating to the oldies 2008

  • The sadistic Whalen retaliates by sending them to the "" Klondike, '' his freezingly ironic name for the prison basement, where he raises the temperature to 150 degrees.

    The Iron Menagerie 2008

  • Could be mind-freezingly, butt-numbingly boring, but I doubt that.

    Love pedantry? Try this on for size! | Her Bad Mother 2006

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