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[ adjective ] remote in manner
Examples "stood apart with aloof dignity" "a distant smile" "he was upstage with strangers" Used in print (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)Still the guards did not move , but stood inert , aloof from the slow scrambling man . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] in an aloof manner
Examples "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough" |
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