What is "aloofly"

Usage examples of "aloofly".

She nodded aloofly at Bryce, who was watching Gideon with brooding eyes.

He did not look at Sharpe, but rather stared aloofly towards the village.

So they exchanged no smiles, only a curt nod of his head and an answering one from her before she turned away aloofly and moved on.

The imposing buildings standing aloofly apart atop the hill called Tara were become but shadows, some limned darkly against the sky, others spectrally pale.

The Duke of Raincy la-tour looked back at me with cool, clear eyes, smiling half aloofly, a little scornfully, as in the presence of danger the true Frenchman is apt to smile.

They were busy chatting with one another about boys as they cycled aloofly by in a heavy cloud of perfume, just purchased at Bartlett's Drugstore on Main.

Then he spoke to Liara as he always did, aloofly, not meeting her eye to eye.

Buyers from great trading houses could be seen threading the aisles, aloofly on the lookout for something worth their time and interest.

The Queen smiled aloofly from a calendar, pinned to the wall between newspaper cut-outs of the Rolling Stones and a large framed oil of a Roman lady stabbing herself.