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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cold-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. That looks coldly or dispassionately; having a fierce or aloof mein.
    • Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails. 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 14:

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Synonyms

stony · brutal · hardhearted · insensitive · iron-hearted · insensate · rigorous · stonyhearted · cruel · marble-hearted · strict · flint-hearted · cold-eyed · hard · icy · frosty · hard-boiled · stern · heartless · stonehearted · hardhanded · humorless · frosty · dour · cold · forbidding · unmoved · thick-skinned · hardhearted · tough · grim · harsh · rockhearted · severe · unsympathetic · hardened · callous