aloofly

English

Etymology

aloof +‎ -ly

Adverb

aloofly (comparative alooflier or more aloofly, superlative aloofliest or most aloofly)

1. 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[.]

Translations

in an aloof manner

• Finnish: etäisesti (fi), varautuneesti, kylmäkiskoisesti (fi)