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chillingly

adv

Etymology

From chilling + -ly.

  1. inherited from chilling
  2. formed as chillingly — “chilling + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a chilling manner.

    • And I'll never forget the chillingly instinctive racism. "Sure is pretty countryside. Pity it's spoiled by the niggers picknickin."
    • His warning was chillingly resonant of late 20th century clashes between two ideologically opposed superpowers.

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