All 7 Uses of
aloof
in
Main Street
- When she was most ardently singing hymns or planning deviltry she yet seemed gently aloof and critical.†
Chpt 1 *
- She put her hand to her mouth, her forefinger and thumb quite painfully pinching her lower lip, and frowned, and enjoyed being aloof.†
Chpt 1
- The place was crowded with Scandinavian farmwives, standing aloof in shawls and ancient fawn-colored leg o' mutton jackets, awaiting the return of their lords.†
Chpt 9
- Stately and aloof among vainglorious tiring-maids, a queen in robes that murmured on the marble floor, she trod the gallery of a crumbling palace.†
Chpt 17
- The Haydocks themselves kept aloof, but the others tolerated him.†
Chpt 30
- He was the first man in town who had not been sensitive enough to feel Carol's aloofness.†
Chpt 35
- It was in the Villa Margherita, by the palms of the Charleston Battery and the metallic harbor, that her aloofness melted.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others