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coolly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial coolly has 1 sense
- coolly(r = adv.all) nervelessly, nonchalantly - in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher"
CIDE DICTIONARY
coolly, a.
Coolish; cool. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
coolly, adv.
In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently. [1913 Webster]
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