aloof
adverb
at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart.
aloofly
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a word derived from
aloof.
Example Sentences
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From James Bond to Jason Bourne, TV and film portrayals usually present those characters who kill for work as nonchalant and aloofly awesome.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
I managed to get them both sitting, albeit aloofly, after 10 minutes of screaming and storming off.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
Campaign manager John Sears, the Washington lawyer and strategist who had helped Reagan nearly unseat Ford in 1976, believed Reagan should remain aloofly “presidential.”
From Time ● Jun. 5, 2014
Salisbury, the aristocrat, is aloofly superior to any cynical bargain, be it with Moscow or Peking, even when Churchill, the politician, may not be.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through all the customary bustle of an ocean liner's departure, I moved slowly, silently, aloofly, as a somnambulist.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
