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Significats de aloof en anglès

Remote in manner.

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Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation.

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Examples for "distant"
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It was still distant, abstract: battles at sea thousands of miles off.
Iron Council
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Hopefully there'll be some good news in the not too distant future.
The Guardian
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Avery said simply, 'I saw him fall.' The tawny eyes were distant.
Second to None
4
I appear where I am most needed, yet in hope most distant.
Forge of Darkness
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We must continue our acquaintance sometime in the not too distant future.
Blameless
1
Wow, Nasdaq found the only way possible to upstage the Facebook IPO.
The Guardian
2
Thus dressed he goes upstage right to where Martin keeps the entrance.
Sympathy for the devil
3
To left upstage in a corner a small card table with chairs.
Moral
4
Jasper blurred in her vision as she took a light run upstage.
Shadow fall
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It seemed like a deliberate attempt to upstage the highly publicized meeting.
Somewhere inside
Ús de aloof en anglès
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However, someone who's perhaps slightly aloof will be more approachable after today!
The South African
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It is also somewhat aloof-onebloom per stem, one stem per plant.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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The Party leader, aloof and amused, gave Young the signal to begin.
The God That Failed
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In Peloponnesus, the powerful city of Argos and the Achaeans stood aloof.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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Meanwhile, Canney's idea of Moss as aloof from English art has stuck.
The Guardian
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I feel like I did during orientation week-anxious ,outof place, aloof.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
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Yet the theatre in England remains almost entirely aloof from real life.
Our Stage and Its Critics / By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gaze...
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Perhaps the Days saw themselves as enlightened, standing aloof from that paradox.
Wizardborn
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However, someone rather aloof and enigmatic is likely to catch your eye.
The South African
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He returned it, still aloof, and said, There ain't any visitor's parking.
Blood music
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The previous administration of George W. Bush stood aloof from the body.
Reuters
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He's intensely thoughtful about the whole thing, and private, and quite aloof.
The Guardian
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He was better liked than du Tancret but considered cold and aloof.
Surrender to the will of the night
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From the anguish of the day before he held himself carefully aloof.
Jason: A Romance
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These all held themselves quite aloof from the masses of the people.
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
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The Society itself, however, kept aloof from the battle of the journals.
Freeland: A Social Anticipation
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