Both Uses of
aloof
in
Arrowsmith
- He rarely left his small brown weedy house except to return to his laboratory, and few students outside of his classes had ever identified him, but everyone had heard of his tall, lean, dark aloofness.†
Chpt 2
- The aloofness of Angus Duer racked him as an insult to himself, as somehow an implied insult to Leora, but his boyish rage had passed into a bleaker worry.†
Chpt 7 *
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others