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Meanings of frigidly in English
Usage of frigidly in English
1
A laugh frigidly jeering; a look lazily mutinous; gentlemanlike irony, patrician resentment.
2
The lights at the main entrance of the Union Station glowed frigidly.
3
Nina said frigidly; and, turning on her heel, she abruptly left him.
4
She felt as if it had a soul that was frigidly ironic.
5
I never saw anyone so calm, so composed and so frigidly agreeable.
6
Greg received him rather frigidly, though with no open breach of courtesy.
7
At length she said, frigidly, 'Perhaps M. de Marsac will sit, Fanchette.
8
The grey waters chopped frigidly against the flat stone where he always stood.
9
There was something frigidly beautiful about him, something untouched and untouchable.
10
On my right I have a frigidly respectable widow of Low Church tendencies.
11
He declared frigidly that he would not go to school again.
12
Remote, slightly vague, like an English baron after an evening's drinking, frigidly polite.
13
It made a break, and they went away, saying good-night frigidly.
14
Audrey avoided me when she could, and was frigidly polite when we met.
15
You must bow down before mediocrity, frigidly polite mediocrity which you despise-andobey.
16
Neither, she informed herself frigidly, was his appearance or his non-appearance.
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