gelidly
English
Etymology
Adverb
gelidly (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 17, [1]