ICILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does icily mean? 

• ICILY (adverb)
  The adverb ICILY has 1 sense:

1. in a cold and icy manner

  Familiarity information: ICILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a cold and icy manner

Context example:

'Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily

Pertainym:

icy (devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain)

 Context examples 

"You surely don't mean to say that Mr. Hapgood is stupid?" she demanded icily.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Again she regarded me so icily, I felt at once that her opinion of me—her feeling towards me—was unchanged and unchangeable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, 'icily regular, splendidly null'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Well?" he answered icily.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)