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# coldly

«coldly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In an unfriendly way, without warmth or kindness** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (coldly)

### meaning for a pupil

In an unfriendly way, without warmth or kindness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows a character who is unkind, angry or distant ("she looked at him coldly"). It tells the reader about feelings, not temperature. Phrases: "replied coldly", "stared coldly", "coldly polite".

### examples

- "I don't need your help," she said coldly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/#x1)
- The guard stared coldly at the visitors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/#x2)
- He coldly ignored my wave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/#x3)
- The queen smiled coldly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/#x4)
- The shopkeeper answered coldly and turned away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/#x5)
- “Father, I am waiting,” said Michael coldly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/#x6)

### note

Adverb from "cold". It almost always describes behaviour, not the weather; to talk about weather say "it was very cold".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «coldly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coldly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.