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Meanings of estrangement in inglês

português
alienação
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alienació

The feeling of being alienated from other people.

alienação
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Examples for "alienation"
Examples for "alienation"
1
The greatest problem for our children and young people today is alienation.
The Irish Times
2
It did not work: far from dissolving, his sense of alienation deepened.
Career of Evil
3
As a result, Ahmed Husseini speaks of a deep alienation from society.
The Guardian
4
Or could it be that technology created its own form of alienation?
Time After Time
5
How and why the world's diverse political institutions came to be, alienation.
Radio NZ
1
It's a sore point and there is great disaffection among the owners.
The Irish Times
2
Youthful disaffection and boredom spirals outward into political power-play and catastrophic violence.
The Irish Times
3
A plan for talks at least regarding genuine concern at Scottish disaffection?
The Guardian
4
But President Suharto's regime had been undermined by widespread disaffection from within.
The Irish Times
5
He again became the centre of fashion and of disaffection in Paris.
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
Usage of estrangement in inglês
1
The second cause is the estrangement of the rich from the poor.
What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow
2
I believe she would regret the-theinevitable estrangement as much as I.
Harriet and the Piper
3
And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.
Kafka on the Shore
4
No; I have never forgotten your kindness, and always regretted our estrangement.
"My Novel" — Volume 11
5
In spite of their estrangement, she could not keep this to herself.
Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War
6
She blamed him entirely for the estrangement between himself and his wife.
The Second Honeymoon
7
But the estrangement made him feel what Cécile had become to him.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
8
There had been a degree of estrangement between him and his patron.
Endymion
9
Thus the quarrel slowly crystallised into a permanent estrangement, a passive feud.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
10
There is evidently some misunderstanding or estrangement between yourself and your husband.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
11
There was no longer any sense of separation or estrangement between them.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
12
Something about Ellen drove Joanna back into her old sense of estrangement.
Joanna Godden
13
Her brief estrangement from Arline had been another of her secret griefs.
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
14
Kate, it is no time for so bitter an estrangement as this.
The Deserter
15
The estrangement between us, which my sister had feared, had begun already.
Basil
16
And his silence and apparent estrangement lay upon Janetta's heart like lead.
A True Friend: A Novel
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Estrangement through the time
Estrangement across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common