All 3 Uses of
aloof
in
Catch-22
- The colonel lifted his eyes as though affronted and studied the chaplain with aloof distrust.†
Chpt 19
- Yossarian could make out Major Major by his towering and lanky aloofness and thought he recognized Major Danby mopping his brow with a handkerchief.†
Chpt 24 *
- When they came out, she came out, dried her shoulders with her own towel and seated herself aloofly in her own spot, her back rigid and a ring of reflected sunlight burnishing her light-blond hair like a halo.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others