Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a cold and icy manner;
- Example: "`Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily";
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Icily \I"ci*ly\, adv.
In an icy manner; coldly.
[1913 Webster]
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,
Dead perfection, no more. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
icily
adv 1: in a cold and icy manner; "`Mr. Powell finds it easier to
take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to
take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily"