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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