All 3 Uses of
aloof
in
The Death of Ivan Ilych
- He took up an attitude of rather dignified aloofness towards the provincial authorities, but picked out the best circle of legal gentlemen and wealthy gentry living in the town and assumed a tone of slight dissatisfaction with the government, of moderate liberalism, and of enlightened citizenship.†
Chpt 2
- These were islets at which they anchored for a while and then again set out upon that ocean of veiled hostility which showed itself in their aloofness from one another.†
Chpt 2 *
- This aloofness might have grieved Ivan Ilych had he considered that it ought not to exist, but he now regarded the position as normal, and even made it the goal at which he aimed in family life.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others