COOLLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coolly mean? 

• COOLLY (adverb)
  The adverb COOLLY has 1 sense:

1. in a composed and unconcerned manner

  Familiarity information: COOLLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOLLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a composed and unconcerned manner

Synonyms:

coolly; nervelessly; nonchalantly

Context example:

without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher

Pertainym:

cool (marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional)

 Context examples 

"Right," said Mr. St. John, quite coolly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“You’ve done it now, Watson,” said he, coolly. “A pretty mess you’ve made of the carpet.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scott never desisted from his efforts, though he looked up coolly and asked: Your dog?

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I don't give myself the trouble of thinking at all about you,” said Steerforth, coolly; “so I'm not mistaken, as it happens.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He accepted Destiny, marched hand in hand with it, and coolly measured the stroke.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Why, Mr. Reuben Hayes,” said Holmes, coolly, “one might think that you were afraid of our finding something out.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the man, shifting the club from right to left, coolly caught him by the under jaw, at the same time wrenching downward and backward.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And with an elaborate sea-salute, this fellow, a long, ill-looking, yellow-eyed man of five and thirty, stepped coolly towards the door and disappeared out of the house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. John Knightley looked as if he did not comprehend the pleasure, but said only, coolly, I cannot wish to be snowed up a week at Randalls.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Your coming to Longbourn, to see me and my family,” said Elizabeth coolly, “will be rather a confirmation of it; if, indeed, such a report is in existence.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)