Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a chilling manner; coldly.

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  • adverb In a chilling manner.

Etymologies

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chilling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Most chillingly is one of the members of the group, Jutson Alvarado, brings up the recent stabbing of another transgender person in the streets of Tarapoto and seems in approval of that attack.

    News cameras capture beating, undressing and humiliation of trans street worker 2009

  • One such lawmaker, Rep. Ileana Ross-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), later recalled chillingly that the person the Pentagon sent personally to brief her on the BTTR shootdown was none other than the queen of spies herself - Ana Belen Montes.

    RenewAmerica 2009

  • The sets, imported from Glyndebourne opera, are chillingly spare: A huge set of French doors cants and spins on a hoist above the stage, gigantic dead branches descend and ascend, and a merry-go-round of furniture and gravesites appear and disappear.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • But in the introduction to her translation, she chillingly records being trapped by the SA at a beer hall speech of Hitler's and observes that fundamental human decency

    Lev Raphael: Did You Ever See Hitler? Lev Raphael 2010

  • "Downfall," a 2004 German movie, featured a lead performance by Swiss actor Bruno Ganz as Hitler that historian Mr. Kershaw called "chillingly authentic."

    Germany Mounts Hitler Exhibit, a First Marcus Walker 2010

  • The sets, imported from Glyndebourne opera, are chillingly spare: A huge set of French doors cants and spins on a hoist above the stage, gigantic dead branches descend and ascend, and a merry-go-round of furniture and gravesites appear and disappear.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • But in the introduction to her translation, she chillingly records being trapped by the SA at a beer hall speech of Hitler's and observes that fundamental human decency

    Lev Raphael: Did You Ever See Hitler? Lev Raphael 2010

  • But once you see it, those quick shifts in the tide of battle become chillingly vivid.

    Refighting the Battle of Gettysburg Thomas Donnelly 2011

  • But in the introduction to her translation, she chillingly records being trapped by the SA at a beer hall speech of Hitler's and observes that fundamental human decency

    Lev Raphael: Did You Ever See Hitler? Lev Raphael 2010

  • The sets, imported from Glyndebourne opera, are chillingly spare: A huge set of French doors cants and spins on a hoist above the stage, gigantic dead branches descend and ascend, and a merry-go-round of furniture and gravesites appear and disappear.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

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