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What does cold comfort mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cold comfort? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Much less reassurance, consolation, aid, or pleasure than one needs or desires.
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The strong words will come as cold comfort to the Prison Officers' Association and its 3,200 members.
I got an armchair and a desk and an electric fire, for the hibachi is cold comfort in the winter.
These statistics are nonetheless cold comfort to friends and neighbors who have lost their jobs to overseas labor markets.
Putting a wrongdoer out of the industry is cold comfort to the injured investor.
But that will be cold comfort to the millions of children who have been hit hard by these arbitrary policies, shamelessly justified in the name of school safety.
But that's cold comfort to the ratepayer if the project fails to meet its targets.

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