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Icy

adjective

(compar. icier; superl. iciest)

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, wintry. "Got a frosty reception" , "A frozen look on their faces" , "A glacial handshake" , "Icy stare" , "Wintry smile"

Extremely cold. Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, polar. "A frigid day" , "Gelid waters of the North Atlantic" , "Glacial winds" , "Icy hands" , "Polar weather"

Covered with or containing or consisting of ice.

Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice.

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"Icy" Quotes from Famous Books

... self-controlled at times, and madly passionate at others; a lover of pure literature, and yet terribly free in her own writings; kind to her dependants, yet capable of aiming a violent blow at some courtier whom she had caressed a moment before the blow came; an icy virgin, and a confirmed and audacious flirt; a generous mistress, and an odious miser; a free giver to those near her, and a skinflint who let the sailors who saved her country lie rotting to death in the open streets of Ramsgate because she could not find in her heart to give them either medical ...

— Side Lights • James Runciman

... in Winter are in a state of almost absolute repose. The entrance to their abode is generally very small in proportion to the space within; and let the weather out of doors vary as it may, the inside temperature is very uniform. These natural hives are dry, because the moisture finds no cold or icy top, or sides, on which to condense, and from which it must drip upon the bees, destroying their lives, or enfeebling their health, by filling the interior of their dwelling with mould and dampness. As they are very quiet, they ...

— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth

... is to be alone with the judge and the avenger of thy law. So is a stone flung out into empty space and into the icy ...

— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

... I suppose," said the icy voice. That suggestion of holding herself in check, which accompanied Mrs. Comerford's worst anger, had been a terrifying thing in ...

— Love of Brothers • Katharine Tynan

... There was an icy inflection in the tones which sent a chill to Marcantonio's heart as he listened. One of the Chiefs of the Ten was always a member of the still more dreaded Inquisition, whose identity was never known, and the passionless voice held a ...

— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

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