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People who don't know her, think she is aloof from the rest of the team, but she is just focused on the game.aloof = socially distant or uninterested
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She missed their warm relationship and was saddened by his aloofness.aloofness = emotional distance and lack of interest
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She focuses on her work and is aloof from office politics.aloof = uninterested
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But Stacey remained aloof and had little to do with him. (source)aloof = uninterested in being friends
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Socs were always behind a wall of aloofness, careful not to let their real selves show through. (source)aloofness = social distance (acting superior)
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But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch. (source)aloof = socially distant or uninterested
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This room was swept and fairly neat, for Crooks was a proud, aloof man. (source)aloof = thinking of himself as superior
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(Unable to stand longer her mother's aloofness, slowly drops album on table, and moves quickly to L. of Mother) (Passionately) On, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. (source)aloofness = emotionally distancestandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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'Very well,' he said aloofly.† (source)
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But Clara was aloof also from her fellow-workers. (source)aloof = socially distant -- often thinking oneself superior to others
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That was how I escaped my father's aloofness, in my dead mother's books.† (source)aloofness = the quality or degree of being socially distant or uninterested
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A four-story private school for girls stood directly across the side street—a stolid and rather aloofly anonymous-looking building that rarely came alive till about three-thirty in the afternoon, when public-school children from Third and Second Avenues came to play jacks or stoop-ball on its stone steps.† (source)
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Erudite, witty, and aloof, he consistently refused media appearances.† (source)aloof = socially distant or uninterested
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Tears threatened to erase the aloofness of their authority.† (source)aloofness = the quality or degree of being socially distant or uninterested
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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.† (source)
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"Yeah," I said, doing my best to sound aloof.† (source)aloof = socially distant or uninterested
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