Synonyms:
coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly
Meaning: in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher"
Usage examples
He said it coolly but it required an effort.
"So much the better," Major Vernon answered, coolly.
"It won't get up here, though," Mona asserted coolly.
"That is very good," said Ling Chu coolly, and pulled out the handkerchief.
"My dear Spilett, and you, Pencroft," answered Harding, "let us reason coolly.
'I don't find it worth my while to cut things so fine as to go into the inquiry,' Fascination coolly answered.
'Throw it away,' he coolly recommends as to the parasol; 'you have made it useless; you look ridiculous with it.'
Nessus coolly wiped his knife upon the garments of the spy, and then proceeded at a rapid pace until he overtook Malchus.
But the owner of the heap coolly separates the animal from the vegetable, adds a little water, and drinks his chicha without ceremony.
'He treats the young lady very coolly,' thought Rachel, forgetting, perhaps, that his special relations to Dorcas Brandon had compelled his stay in that part of the world.