gelidly
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gelidly (not comparable)
- In a gelid manner; coldly, icily.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
- Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep.
- 1960, Louis W. Koenig, The Invisible Presidency[2], Rinehart, page 15:
- The United States Supreme Court, however, was not the colonial judiciary. It gelidly declined to co-operate with Washington.