(a.) Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
(a.) Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
(a.) Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
(a.) Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frosty … Rafe Spall in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
(3) An analysis showed that frosty weather, the existence and direction of a wind, atmospheric-electrical processes preceding the passage of meteorological fronts influenced the nature of proliferative responses.
(4) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(5) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(6) Photograph: Fosis Ibrahim Ali, vice-president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies , which says it represents more than 130,000 Muslim students, said the government’s attitude towards his organisation had been “frosty”.
(7) The woman who back in the day managed to win a flame war with Julie Burchill landed the odd decent punch below the belt (Poker Face, she said, perfectly describes Gaga's "frosty mug"), but Gaga remained undemolished as Paglia's critique missed the point by a mile.
(8) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
(9) The prime minister’s spokeswoman denied relations were frosty, saying May had full confidence in Stevens.
(10) Neither of New Orleans nor Philadelphia really lived up to their reputations for explosive offensive football – and perhaps the frosty conditions were a factor here – but they played hard right to the end of a see-saw fourth quarter in which each team had thought the victory was in their grasp long before Shayne Graham’s game-winning kick.
(11) That feeling of Romney's power in New Hampshire is common amid the state's frozen hills and frosty mountains.
(12) Allan Cubitt's startling script turned out to be BBC2's biggest drama launch in years , largely thanks to the warped ying and yang of Gillian Anderson as a frosty detective set against Dornan as Paul Spector, caring therapist by day, rapist and murderer by night.
(13) The frosty relations between Osborne and Johnson, which became semi-public recently when the chancellor’s most loyal supporter, Michael Gove , rubbished the London mayor at a dinner with Rupert Murdoch, are undergoing something of a thaw.
(14) The rain, sleet and snow will be replaced by dry and frosty weather overnight with black ice expected to be an additional hazard in many areas.
(15) It’s meant to be frosty, too, and it’s beautiful when you look up and see the frost in the trees.
(16) Liam Byrne, who had the use of a Jag as chief secretary to the Treasury in the last government, found that crossing a ministerial driver is unwise when details of his allegedly frosty relations with his driver were splashed across the Mail on Sunday in March.
(17) After initially recalling its ambassador to Egypt at the height of diplomatic tensions , Italy has since announced a replacement, though in a sign of the still-frosty relationship he has not yet been sent to Cairo.
(18) All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election which will take place on 8 June.” Within minutes of Tusk’s intervention, however, senior Tory sources suggested the comments could be aimed as much at Juncker, whose account of the apparently frosty dinner in Downing Street was leaked to the German press, as at the prime minister.
(19) But now, with Frosty dead, and the great inquisitors – Paxo, Humphrys – nearing retirement?
(20) The White House in a statement said: “The two leaders agreed on the importance of deepening the already strong United States-Canada relationship and committed to strengthening the countries’ joint efforts to promote trade,combat terrorism, and mitigate climate change.” Trudeau has said he would work to improve Canada-US relations, which he claims became frosty under Harper.
Snappy
Definition:
(a.) Snappish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the meantime, if the keenly priced Moto E performs similarly to the Moto G, being snappy and lasting a solid day on a single charge, it could sell very well, especially in the run-up to Christmas.
(2) Enjoy it, since 2009 will be the Year of the Compact Fluorescent Lamp, which isn't as snappy.
(3) During the war years, his snappy, escapist films brought joy to audiences on the home front, while he was the only Hope (puns on his surname have always been de rigueur ) for thousands of troops overseas whom he entertained on his various tours from 1941.
(4) Quickened the pace in midfield with some snappy passing and clever movement.
(5) The Egyptians called it Shedet (it was the Greeks who, wise to the city’s USP, gave it its snappy name), and it was possibly the most ancient city in ancient Egypt.
(6) In a snappy suit, and with a new razor-sharp hairdo, Osborne looks ready for business.
(7) You can see how that works with a classic Kiwi sauvignon blanc, which has a snappy, pungent, faintly sweaty greenness to match the same character in asparagus, but also has an incisive citric crispness to cut through the almost buttery richness of avocado.
(8) Be Free and Chatpot are delightful rhythm games on delicate sax motifs, distant hoots and synthesised vocals, set against Seb Rochford’s clappy drum grooves or soft clatters; the snappy rimshots and lazy tenor-shruggings of They’re All Ks and Qs Lucien are irresistible all the way to their finale.” What they said: “I wanted for there to be a strong rhythmic drive that propels it, and then sometimes for there to be the feeling of pure space.” – Tom Herbert.
(9) Snappy Snaps prints ordered online and collected in-store appear to be more expensive in London than elsewhere.
(10) Based on the features of M1 and OS according to auscultation and phonocardiography, the patients were categorized as group I, 18 patients with loud and snappy M1 and OS; group II, 12 patients with snappy M1 but small and dull OS; and group III, seven patients with small and dull M1 and OS.
(11) Snappy Snaps can charge 75p for a single print, though the price will drop if you order more.
(12) Ridley Scott was definitely in charge - and he was quite snappy with some of the questioners.
(13) Yellen, who isn't giving terribly snappy answers, has generally been backing the Fed's approach under Bernanke.
(14) The first question of the first show last month, presented by George Lamb, set the tone: "Which singer crashed his car into Snappy Snaps while high on cannabis?"
(15) It is complex and requires a complex set of solutions, not the kind that make neat and snappy headlines.
(16) It all seemed part of a grand vision, one with some intellectual underpinning from the "red Tory" thinktank ResPublica and a snappy title – the Big Society.
(17) "I keep chapters short and snappy because I like that.
(18) The tone was snappy, with the former White House chief of staff trying to highlight what Emanuel says is García’s lack of experience, especially in managing the finances of the nation’s third most populous city.
(19) At the photo shoot for this piece she gamely tries on outfit after outfit of streetwear, looking like a small but ferocious superhero, the type of no-nonsense heroine who’s as at home with a snappy retort as a swift roundhouse kick, and the perfect companion for Capaldi’s madcap incarnation of the Doctor.
(20) 76 mins: England try to mount a snappy counter-attack, but once again it's brought to and end by Hummels, who intercepts a well-intentioned Johnson ball just before Walcott could collect.