All 13 Uses
aloof
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Sons and Lovers
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- And, standing more aloof from him, not feeling him so much part of herself, but merely part of her circumstances, she did not mind so much what he did, could leave him alone.†
Chpt 1.3aloof = socially distant or uninterested
- And she was afraid lest this boy, who, nevertheless, looked something like a Walter Scott hero, who could paint and speak French, and knew what algebra meant, and who went by train to Nottingham every day, might consider her simply as the swine-girl, unable to perceive the princess beneath; so she held aloof.†
Chpt 2.7
- She stood aside in her still, aloof fashion.†
Chpt 2.7
- She knew him well by now, and could tell from that keen-looking, aloof young body of his what was happening inside him.†
Chpt 2.9
- Clara sat leaning on the table, holding aloof.†
Chpt 2.9
- The other woman held aloof.†
Chpt 2.9
- But Clara was aloof also from her fellow-workers.
Chpt 2.10 *aloof = socially distant -- often thinking oneself superior to others
- Very well; then she would stand aloof till he said something.†
Chpt 2.11aloof = socially distant or uninterested
- She stood aloof.†
Chpt 2.12
- The next day there was a new aloofness about him.†
Chpt 2.12aloofness = the quality or degree of being socially distant or uninterested
- Mrs. Radford sat down again, large and impressive and aloof.†
Chpt 2.12aloof = socially distant or uninterested
- Lifting her hair with her fingers, she sat down, rather aloof and composed.†
Chpt 2.14
- He lay there aloof, careless about her.†
Chpt 2.15
Definitions:
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(1)
(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)