aloofness

[ UK /ɐlˈuːfnəs/ ]
[ US /əˈɫufnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
  2. indifference by personal withdrawal
    emotional distance
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How To Use aloofness In A Sentence

  • Conservative Government came into power in 1874, drawing attention to the danger of our being satisfied with a policy of aloofness, and pointing out the necessity for coming into closer relations with the Amir of Afghanistan and the Khan of Khelat. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
  • In the sestet we hear his revealingly equivocal reply to the proffered charge of aloofness.
  • With the possible exception of Ronald Reagan, whose fabled aloofness and privateness were probably signs of a deep introverted streak (many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors), introverts are not considered "naturals" in politics. Now Please Shush!
  • The ability to see for one's self is attainable, not by mixing with crowds and ascertaining how they look at things, but by a certain aloofness and self-containment. How Books Become Immortal
  • Again, not to kick up sand, but Bush has a certain aloofness to him. Olive Stone's W Biopic - What and Who? « FirstShowing.net
  • Hill is affronted by the World Cup winner's aloofness and relates an incident in which, after a match at Old Trafford, the United No9 pointedly asks him why he's drinking in the players' lounge. Who's the sycophant in the black? | Harry Pearson
  • her sudden alienating aloofness
  • Nicolovius's haughty aloofness, his rigid uncommunicativeness, his grand ducal bearing and the fact that he paid eighteen dollars a week for a suite had of course made him a man of mark and mystery in the boarding-house, and in the romancings of Miss Miller he had figured as nearly everything from a fugitive crown prince to a retired counterfeiter. Queed
  • Her manner partook of an aloofness.
  • Collins always seemed to play the game with an air of detachment, a cool aloofness in his comfortable possession of the ball and passing that was as smooth as soul music.
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