chillingly

chillingly

English

Etymology

    From chilling + -ly.

    Adverb

    chillingly (comparative more chillingly, superlative most chillingly)

    1. In a chilling manner.
      • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71:
        And I'll never forget the chillingly instinctive racism. "Sure is pretty countryside. Pity it's spoiled by the niggers picknickin."
      • 2022 January 10, Stephen Collinson, “Biden confronts challenges to democracy at home and abroad this week”, in CNN[1]:
        His warning was chillingly resonant of late 20th century clashes between two ideologically opposed superpowers.

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