Sentence example with the word 'aloof'

aloof

above, blank, discreet, heartless, indifferent, noncoherent, proud, skyward, suppressed, uncompanionable, unsocial

Definition adv. in an aloof manner

Last update: November 5, 2016


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He keeps himself aloof from politics.   [adjective]

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He was an able pupil, but remained an aloof one, interested already in the strange and arcane byways of literature and history.   [adjective]

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Then a cry from Helen and we all scrambled to see a fine White-headed Vulture standing aloof from the rest.   [adjective]

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Everywhere he had been a stranger and aloof.   [adjective]

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She had been kept aloof from that libertine crew; but was she any better than they.   [adjective]

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"His lordship has ever an air of being aloof from everybody," Denzil answered gravely.   [adjective]

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He stood ever aloof from the royal focus, the beauty, and the wit, the most dazzling jewels, the most splendid raiment.   [adjective]

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"Since his sickness last year, he has been the image of melancholy; he has held himself aloof from me as if _I_ had had the pestilence."   [adjective]

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The group of ladies stared at Angela in a smiling silence, one haughtier than the rest standing a little aloof.   [adjective]

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I stand aloof and admire, and wonder at so much modesty and intelligence in Lady Fareham's sister.   [adjective]

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Therefore he never could hold aloof from the Free and Frisky gatherings, and accepted the chair upon Bumper-nights, when it was a sinecure benefice.   [adjective]

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