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English
Etymology
From aloof + -ly.
Adverb
aloofly (comparative alooflier or more aloofly, superlative aloofliest or most aloofly)
- In an aloof manner.
1919, Thomas Hardy, “For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly”, in Moments of Vision:With symphonies soft and sweet colour
It courted me then,
Till evasions seemed wrong,
Till evasions gave in to its song,
And I warmed, until living aloofly loomed duller
Than life among men.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 87:The girl, with eyebrows arched aloofly, continued to glance about the street[.]
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