Related Clues:

• More cold and unfriendly
• More unfriendly here in France -- here, where outsiders are ignored
• More mean, like a rumor
• Cake-maker, say, drinking one more bitter
• More slippery, as a winter sidewalk
• Even more distant
• Less attractive fruit about to be returned
• Increasingly distant, keeping company no longer with queen
• More like some novelty Christmas sweaters
• More freezer-burned, maybe