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Recent Examples of frostiness
One of the points of the posturing — in aerial ballets that take place away from public gaze hundreds of times a year — is to try to ensure that the frostiness between NATO and the Kremlin over Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine doesn't tilt into open hostility.
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ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frostiness
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Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
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The bureaucratic coldness of Bolshevik Communism and the violent regressions of Fascism were yet worse.
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His smug iciness here would serve him well playing both Patrick Bateman and Bruce Wayne.
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Scientists speculated that a slow metabolism and the frigidity of the water may have combined to keep the octopus mother alive.
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Rugged individualism, frigidity of rugged individual.
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“Frostiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frostiness. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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