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In cold blood   /ɪn koʊld bləd/   Listen
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Cold  adj.  (compar. colder; superl. coldest)  
1.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis."
2.
Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
3.
Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants."
4.
Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. "A cold and unconcerned spectator." "No cold relation is a zealous citizen."
5.
Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort."
6.
Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. "What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!" "The jest grows cold... when in comes on in a second scene."
7.
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
8.
Not sensitive; not acute. "Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose."
9.
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
10.
(Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
Cold abscess. See under Abscess.
Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2.
Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8.
Cold chill, an ague fit.
Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal.
Cold cream. See under Cream.
Cold slaw. See Cole slaw.
In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately. "He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over."
To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.
Synonyms: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.





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"In cold blood" Quotes from Famous Books



... ourselves. They will get on anyhow. What it is important to consider is the probable condition of the less efficient, and especially the submerged class, under a Socialist regime. And consideration will be useful only if it is in cold blood, absolutely without sentiment, and especially without even sub-conscious assumption or imagination that the condition of the unfortunate, or less fortunate, would or would not be improved by Socialism, or whether mankind can or ...
— The Inhumanity of Socialism • Edward F. Adams
... at me," she told herself each time, her anger at him and at herself rising higher and higher. "He would know that I could not kill him. Not in cold blood, this way!" ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... case or a hard-working, thoroughly respectable man who, for no reason that is known, suddenly shoots down his wife and children in cold blood, and then blows his own ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris
... announced the report from the front. Following this came Nebuchadrezzar's body guard leading the lesser Judean nobles in chains; and, at a command given by a Babylonian officer from Nebuchadrezzar's platform, these were slaughtered before the eyes of Zedekiah, and of his sons and princes, in cold blood. ...
— Stories of the Prophets - (Before the Exile) • Isaac Landman
... it—poor dear Claire did not belong to the most fascinating type of woman. She was too tall and thin, too stiff and cold; her mouth was too wide and her nose too narrow. She had no dimples anywhere. And then she was eccentric, eccentric in cold blood; she was an Anglaise, after all. Newman was very impatient; he was counting the minutes until his victims should reappear. He sat silent, leaning upon his cane, looking absently and insensibly at the little marquise. At length ...
— The American • Henry James


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