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Recent Examples of frigidly
At least Stijn Verhoeven and Ewa Mroczkowska’s nuanced production design for the interiors, including bourgeois homes full of kitschy knick-knacks, anonymous office spaces and frigidly austere villas, tell a story of their own about the material culture of the era.
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
Sweet, refreshing, and so frigidly fabulous in the height of summer.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
Sweet, refreshing, and so frigidly fabulous in the height of summer.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frigidly
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Then there’s Rick Devens, whose reputation coming off of his fourth-place finish in season 38’s Edge of Extinction is less of a coldly calculating snake than a perpetual-motion machine whose strategizing and idol-hunting has the 50 returnees already exhausted at the thought of playing with him.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
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Duvall possessed a Brando-like intensity in the Seventies, whether as the coldly strategic Tom Hagen in the Godfather pictures or as Frank Hackett, the soulless, hotheaded executive in Sidney Lumet’s bruising satire Network.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
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Haley McCutcheon’s through ball allowed Banda to break through Seattle’s defense and coolly place it past Claudia Dickey for a goal in her first game back after missing the second half of 2025 due to an injury.—
Kyle Foley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
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Two hours after the deadline swept past the Broncos’ building in Dove Valley, their then-22-year-old receiver at the center of the fanbase’s buzz sat at his locker, coolly pulling on his gear.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Frigidly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frigidly. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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