aloof
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“People shouldn’t care to hear my opinion. I didn’t have a phone for 18 months… I hate to be the artist that’s that aloof, but I’m so disconnected from what’s happening.”
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
You’re not some careless, aloof fool; your behavior at times just very closely resembles that of a careless, aloof fool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
During that time, her role evolved from one-on-one advocate to legislative reformer, from shielding individual survivors from an aloof and demoralizing system to changing that system itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Never a natural politician, he was seen as aloof and austere.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025
There are nights when she has been woken by her husband’s muffled screams, times they have ridden the subway together and the rhythm of the wheels on the tracks makes him suddenly pensive, aloof.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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