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distancing
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-ly
Adverb
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distancingly
(
comparative
more
distancingly
,
superlative
most
distancingly
)
So as to
distance
oneself.
2007
August 5, Liesl Schillinger, “The Boy Next Door”, in
New York Times
[1]
:
“Personal stuff” is “smoke,” Kate tells Jamie, trying to sound
distancingly
in control.
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