[
US
/əˈɫuf/
]
[ UK /ɐlˈuːf/ ]
[ UK /ɐlˈuːf/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an aloof manner
the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough
ADJECTIVE
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remote in manner
a distant smile
he was upstage with strangers
stood apart with aloof dignity
How To Use aloof In A Sentence
- Outwardly tough, aloof and cynical, she does a good deal of nail-chewing and fiddling with a cigarette as she decides whether Jack can be trusted.
- When he first came into the job, he was viewed as cool, aloof and intelligent.
- Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
- Sam's wife of 50 years, Alfreda, who managed the business side of Maloof woodworking, died in 1998. Jane Chafin: Discovering Sam Maloof
- Beneath that aloof exterior, Gayle is a warm, sympathetic person.
- The two souls, deeply attached to each other, stand aloof from other members of the family.
- It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged. Kincaid's Battery
- The Sphinx, aloof from such matters of little consequence, waits patiently beyond the pool.
- As a junior minister he was sometimes arrogant and aloof. Times, Sunday Times
- A mate who doesn't need your help may prove aloof and solitary.