Synonym: apart, away, cool, distant, remote, reserved, standoffish, unsociable. Similar words: aloofness, go off, roof, proof, let go of, hit the roof, alone, aloud. Meaning: [ə'luːf] adj. remote in manner. adv. in an aloof manner.
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91 His manner was aloof.
92 The aloof composer neither worried nor cared about public opinion.
93 This character type is portrayed in literature and movies as the detached and often aloof professor.
94 He also lingers over the oddly aloof version of intimacy he fashioned with Deborah Read, his semiliterate wife, and his illegitimate son, William, whom he would raise but eventually disown.
95 The disorderly poems, the no word string, is silencing also is one kind of aloof boundary, is releasing a night of glory, quietly living tracks down that joyful whereabouts in the crevice.
96 The great walks with the small without fear. The middling keeps aloof.
97 Lu Tzu - hsiao had grown very aloof, a tacit understanding having been reached between them.
98 Tucked away in a cul-de-sac off Bahnhof Street, its ornate fa?ade embellished with gables and a pillared balcony, it stands with quiet dignity aloof from glitzy modern towers nearby.
99 He didn't pretend to be aloof to despise the girl in whorehouse .
100 If you have enough patience and chariness, you can not only watch the aloof and proud egret standing in the water but also catch sight of the slim kingfisher diving into the water for fish.
101 As I grew older I found, rather to my surprise, that I had become genuinely fond of my aloof old great-aunt.
102 We are against the irresponsible attitude of standing aloof from things on the ground that they're no concern of ours.
103 You did not come out to support [ remained aloof ] . That was a friendly attitude.
104 The latest by Bob Woodward describes the commander in chief as unusually aloof and detached.
105 When temptation overtakes the iniquitous man, he has no confidence wherewith to call upon God, nor to expect salvation from Him,(http://sentencedict.com/aloof.html) since in the days of his ease he stood aloof from God's will.
106 Ascetic and pragmatic, in their remote monastic eyrie they remained aloof from mundane strife, wrapped in meditation that knew no gods or elements of magic.
107 He pursued earthliness but refused ogling snobishness and kept aloof from literary event on his own.
108 Some see him as too young and inexperienced for a dangerous world; others find him unattractively self-regarding and aloof; still others question his patriotism.
109 Two individual emotive are aloof, be because is the other side right, complete of certain thing conceal with not straight-out and begin?
110 He was silent and aloof, like the man in the moon.
111 There's the cliche of the curmudgeonly comic – grouchy, aloof, a bit passive aggressive – and there's the one who can't switch off, and craves laughter like you or I need oxygen.
112 In the airline business, for example, traditional national carriers faced with feisty, low-cost new entrants had to decide whether to join them (and thus compete with themselves) or to remain aloof.
113 People have often regarded banks and bankers as " cold ", " aloof ".
114 The so - called aloof cabinet was a cipher in algorism.
115 In terms of honor, l stand aloof and will no reconcilement .
116 The answer is a series of smaller things—rhetoric, details, execution, even an aloof vagueness—that have cumulatively undermined his presidency.
117 The child is constantly aloof orr unaware of what the adult is doing.
118 Henceforth I understood that does not stop upwardly, compared already kept aloof, had the value.