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The phrase "cold laugh" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a laugh that lacks warmth or genuine amusement. It can also convey a sense of disdain or mockery. Example: The villain let out a cold laugh as he revealed his evil plan to the hero.
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She gave a brief, cold laugh.
Nando let out a cold laugh at his buddy.
He had changed so much in five years that now part of him wanted to laugh a hard, cold laugh.
A little boy who is terrified to be out of his mother's sight, a little boy who then suddenly laughs his cold laugh and runs out into traffic.
A little boy who begs us to make the flashing lights stop, who suddenly becomes afraid of his best friend because she is telling him to do bad things, who laughs a horrible, cold laugh as he says he wants to kill his mom or dad and make his brother dead forever — and sometimes tries his best to follow through.
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Having grown up in provincial England only a few years before Mitchell, I read "Black Swan Green" in flashes of heat and cold, laughing one moment (it is a very funny book) and cringing the next (it is excruciatingly honest about adolescence).
And then he goes, "Wait, do you have a cold?" (Laughs).
"She called me old and bitter," he said with a cold, snorting laugh.
But when I asked my dad the next logical question whether or not Iceland has ever qualified for the World Cup or the Euros – his response was a cold, mirthless laugh.
Asked how he prepared for playing in the cold, Jeter laughed.
"After that, you'll have about 55 minutes just waiting to die from the paralysing cold," he laughed, grinning, though completely serious.
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