The phrase "a somewhat chilly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a temperature or atmosphere that is moderately cold, often in a subjective or nuanced way.
Example: "The evening air was a somewhat chilly reminder that winter was approaching."
Alternatives: "a bit cold" or "somewhat cool".
In other words, if you give us dominance, we will be more generous — a somewhat chilly proposition.
Indeed, it's been identified as such a significant problem that HarperCollins CEO Victoria Barnsley recently made the interesting suggestion that bookshops ought to charge people to come in and browse, an idea that has had a somewhat chilly reception.
Another strong contender is Mike Bartlett's futuristic verse drama, King Charles III, but that closed early in the season and was a somewhat chillier, though more linguistically daring, affair.
Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp in the movie "The Quake". A somewhat chillier, European-style version of an environmental disaster movie, "The Quake" (a sequel to 2015's "The Wave") balances city-leveling destruction with smaller, more internal devastation.
It's true, too, that he is a technocratic, somewhat chilly personality who has failed to connect with many of his own officers.
Despite the inclusion of the occasional folksy melody, as on "858-7", the music has a distanced formality that reflects the somewhat chilly atmosphere of the paintings.
While it has a blistering hot summer climate, with average highs around 100, it's somewhat chilly during winter.
The team was fearful of being caught, not to mention somewhat chilly.
Always somewhat chilly and detached, he seemed to many friends to grow even more remote.
In 2001, a climate model by Dr. Sleep and Kevin Zahnle of the NASA Ames Research Center found that the late Hadean Earth then would have been somewhat chilly.
It is Dave's successful engineering of a Sunday lunch at his home that brings Ken back together with Nick and introduces him to Nick's girlfriend, the somewhat chilly Astrid.
