Both Uses of
aloof
in
Six Characters in Search of an Author
- This aloofness of yours which is so cruel to me and to your mother, who returns home and sees you almost for the first time grown up, who doesn't recognize you but knows you are her son…[Pointing out the MOTHER to the MANAGER.†
Act 1
- Any how, as you can see, the meeker she is, the more she tries to get at his heart, the more distant and aloof does he become.†
Act 3 *
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others