Sample Sentences for
aloof
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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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    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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    But Clara was aloof also from her fellow-workers.  (source)
    aloof = socially distant -- often thinking oneself superior to others
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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)
    standard 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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    "Yeah," I said, doing my best to sound aloof.†  (source)
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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 distance
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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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    Nat remained aloof, absorbed in a totally male world of rigging and canvas.†  (source)
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    At Brideshead he performed all unavoidable local duties, bringing with him to platform and fete and committee room his own thin mist of clumsiness and aloofness.†  (source)
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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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    In real life, she didn't look so pale and aloof—well, not most of the time, anyway.†  (source)
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