"slightly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- On this occasion, his Drosselmeier was an aristocrat who, though slightly aloof, seemed to be secretly and magically commanding the outcome of the plot.
- She is wickedly smart, slightly aloof and emotionally vulnerable.
- All that was missing was the high-end sparkle of the percussion and acoustic guitars, rendering the music slightly aloof.
- Young American Bulldogs may be slightly aloof with strangers, but as they mature the breed's normal confidence should assert itself.
- If she did resent it, she never gave any sign of it, treating Scarlett with the same slightly aloof, kindly courtesy she had always shown her.
- He found him slightly aloof.
- Sammy is slightly aloof, loves a gag and is Billy's best friend in the whole world.
- Mr. Barbee, 43 years old, has the slightly aloof yet twinkling manner of a man perpetually amused by a private joke.
- His best rhymes join menace with erudition, so he has always seemed stern and slightly aloof.
- Accounts of McCool in his Somerset period portray him as a thoughtful but slightly aloof character.
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