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stonily
adverb
uk /ˈstəʊ.nəl.i/ us /ˈstoʊ.nəl.i/
in a way that shows no sympathy or kindness:
She glared back at him stonily.
The audience remained stonily silent.
The guard refused to answer her questions and stared stonily ahead.
The couple sat stonily at the table, saying nothing to each other.
"None of it is true," he replied stonily.
Lukas slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without saying a word.
The two men both gazed stonily at their boots.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cold-heartedly
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
meanly
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian
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