All 9 Uses

aloof
in
The Rainbow Trail
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Wonder and awe fixed his gaze, and thought remained aloof.†
Chpt 1

aloof = socially distant or uninterested
He was cold, incommunicative, aloof; and there was something about him that made the sensitive Shefford feel his presence was resented.†
Chpt 3
Withers suddenly showed a semblance of the aloofness Shefford had observed in Whisner.†
Chpt 3 *

aloofness = the quality or degree of being socially distant or uninterested
He did not feel utterly aloof from them, nor alone in a waste, nor a useless atom amid incomprehensible forces.†
Chpt 4

aloof = socially distant or uninterested
She was growing cold and still again, aloof, more like those other Mormon women.†
Chpt 6
There was little about them resembling the stern, quiet, somber austerity of the more matured men, and nothing at all of the strange, aloof, serene impassiveness of the gray-bearded old patriarchs.†
Chpt 10
It had so much more than the strange aloofness so characteristic of his fellows.†
Chpt 10

aloofness = the quality or degree of being socially distant or uninterested
Upon removing her bonnet she showed the plain face of a woman of forty, and it was striking only in that strange, stony aloofness noted in the older men.†
Chpt 10
He held his love as a thing aloof, and, as such, intangible because of the living death she believed she lived, it had no warmth and intimacy for them.†
Chpt 12

aloof = socially distant or uninterested

Definitions:

(1) (aloof)
socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)