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alienated
[ ey-lee-uh-ney-tid, eyl-yuh- ]
adjective
- indifferent or hostile:
A year after the floods, the failure of the promised rehabilitation package has fed an already alienated populace's sense of hurt and anger towards the government.
- withdrawn or isolated from the objective world:
Albert Camus's novel The Stranger is the story of an alienated, unfeeling man who kills someone for no reason and dies without remorse.
- turned away from its original purpose or course; transferred or diverted:
The investment firm, which misappropriated millions of dollars committed to it, was required to restore the alienated funds to the plaintiff.
- Law. (of property, title, rights, etc.) transferred or conveyed to another:
Much reservation territory is now owned and controlled by non-Indigenous people, depriving Indigenous nations of billions of dollars in potential income from these alienated lands.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of alienate ( def ).
Other Words From
- un·al·ien·at·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of alienated1
Example Sentences
All in all, this was an extremely strange, even alienating finale.
It was a clearly Islamophobic move aimed at further alienating India’s Muslims and the protets were intended to draw attention to that.
The latter risks turning off voters generally if seen as too permissive, but also could alienate progressives if it’s not seen as sympathetic enough, according to the note.
The result is pockets of hyperspecialization, he says, where scientists are siloed in their disciplines and alienated from the public and even each other.
In a bid for survival, they could go the World Health Organization route and embrace China, but that would alienate second-tier powers such as Germany, France India and Japan.
The trouble was, he alienated Pope Pius VI and Pius VII—the latter he actually arrested.
And the geek, Lionel (Tyler James Williams), is a closeted gay who finds himself alienated by blacks and whites.
I knew that there was a God, but I was alienated by organized religion, especially the guilt part of it.
As pollster John Zogby has written, the president has already alienated many young voters for a number of reasons.
The senator has alienated many Tea Partiers and has yet to reach out to bridge the gap, Hofstra said.
His intemperance alienated him from his father, and he died in prison under sentence of death.
And he would not receive them, but broke all the covenant that he had made with him before, and alienated himself from him.
By this time Marius had in addition, to a great extent, alienated the lower classes of the Roman citizens.
At length, when the grumbling of the poor had already gone too far, he readjusted the taxes, and thus alienated the rich also.
Little by little they have been alienated from the institutions of the Republic.
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