gelidly

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English

Etymology

gelid +‎ -ly

Adverb

gelidly (not comparable)

  1. In a gelid manner; coldly, icily.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 17, [1]
      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, Rinehart, 1960, p. 15, [2]
      The United States Supreme Court, however, was not the colonial judiciary. It gelidly declined to co-operate with Washington.
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