chilliness

Example Sentences

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Ms. Sheehy has a somewhat steely and slightly forbidding chilliness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Whatever’s going on, you deserve to ask for a straight answer and to learn whether there’s an opportunity to resolve this sudden chilliness.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2020

If most people put their minds to it, they can tell stupidity from warmth; why, then, do so many still mistake intelligence for chilliness?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2018

Still, the chilliness onstage has nothing to do with ice.

From New York Times • May 21, 2018

It was a welcome change from the chilliness of the attic, although Ophie was beginning to wonder if it was the weather or the many ghosts of Daffodil Manor that made the rooms so cold.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland