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chilly

adjective

Cold enough to cause shivering; or suddenly feeling cold

  • I'm getting rather chilly over here - could you shut the window please?

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The word "chilly" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a temperature that is cold or cool but not uncomfortable or unpleasantly cold. For example, "The air was chilly when we stepped outside this morning."

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You could imagine the chilly atmosphere at the breakfast table, the prime minister is said to have remarked to friends afterwards.

Some believe the weather is already being shaped by "chemtrails" – aeroplane contrails deliberately laced with toxic chemicals – and mysterious weather warmongers are, for reasons unknown, making the eastern US unbearably chilly and California stricken by drought.

("Great styles and great music!") It dawns on me slowly, like a rather chilly dawn, that I also had a 1950s wedding.

Atrophied voluntary parties are not in a condition to turn the masses out to chilly church hall meetings, but here was a chance for politics to reach into the living rooms of people that it doesn't usually trouble.

These hunt scenes are oddly relaxed, even frivolous in a chilly way; the criminals are simply getting down to work.

But much of the transformation of the Queen's image, from the chilly, notoriously philistinic matriarch who couldn't care less about Diana to an ever more droll and sympathetic mentor to pitifully grateful prime ministers is surely attributable to Mirren's superb acting, and to the writers who have increasingly depicted the monarch as – so long as you are not Margaret Thatcher – fabulous company.

Despite the grim, chilly day and the overwhelming greyness of the buildings, the raw charm of this artisan district is apparent.

It is, by all accounts, a chilly evening in Porto Alegre and both sets of players are wearing their tracksuit tops for the preliminaries.

For the first time I craved a crinoline: my legs were chilly in shorts, and though the sky was cloudless, the rising sun would take time to warm my path.

I'm particularly pleased to hear of his venture, and the enthusiasm with which he views it, because I've been hearing some gloomy stories about how the business treats actors of a certain age - and I'm feeling a bit chilly.

On a chilly, damp and overcast morning in late November 2013, Alex Salmond made the yes campaign's most important announcement before the final countdown to the referendum the following summer.

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