dispassionate

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not being friendly
abrasive
abrasively
abrasiveness
abruptly
abruptness
aloof
estrangement from someone
flintily
forbidding
forbiddingly
freezingly
frigid
gruff
offish
remote
remoteness
reserved
reservedly
saturnine
wintry

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Not showing or feeling emotions

Examples of cold-eyed

cold-eyed
And what is the balance between primary voting as an act of self-expression, and a cold-eyed look at a candidate's prospects in a general election?
From Huffington Post
From a cold-eyed business perspective, antibiotics don't turn big profits for drug companies.
From Foreign Policy
He cast a careless glance at a cold-eyed individual who lounged in the shadow of a corner, and instantly classified him.
From Project Gutenberg
This was the night of golden harvest for the black-garbed, steel-nerved, cold-eyed card-sharps.
From Project Gutenberg
And there was no mistaking her cordiality for this cold-eyed visitor.
From Project Gutenberg
A cold-eyed, hatchet-faced man, from whom not even the most eloquent beggar could hope to coax a penny.
From Project Gutenberg
His whole theory of humanity is tinged with the sad gray colors of a stolid, cold-eyed, ill-contented, egotistical indifference.
From Project Gutenberg
It was that epic strength which makes of weaklings, cold-eyed and high-handed heroes!
From Project Gutenberg
Now the dawn, cruel, cold-eyed and leering, begins to peer through the window.
From Project Gutenberg
Centuries of supercultivation and the refinement of breeding were concentrated in that white-lipped, cold-eyed stare, which is the heart-mask of the recherché woman of empire.
From Project Gutenberg
She was a cold-eyed person whose only ability was to order about other people who were much better than she was.
From Project Gutenberg
He must pay whatever the cold-eyed creditor demanded.
From Project Gutenberg
She had given it a cold-eyed look and walked away without even the formality of taking its scent.
From Project Gutenberg
The cold-eyed man could not restrain a short laugh in his throat.
From Project Gutenberg
This lean cold-eyed interferer was a hardy fool who needed a lesson.
From Project Gutenberg
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