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Estranging

adjective
1.
Making one feel out of place or alienated.





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"Estranging" Quotes from Famous Books



... lack something. You've let two days elapse since you asked my permission to approach her—— You're the same with this Maisie woman—inhumanly, unsatisfactorily magnanimous. You don't identify yourself with our antipathies—you almost side with the people who affront us. It's estranging and distressing. I like a man to be more emphatic in his loyalties and aversions. I like him to show more fire. In days that I can almost remember, Braithwaite's intrusion would have been an occasion for a duel. Terry's ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... deep desire? A God, a God their severance ruled, And bade between their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... his Mahratta colleagues, and estranging such of the Europeans as were not his connections or his creatures, he now summoned George Thomas to Dehli, and called upon him to enter Sindhia's service in other words, to own his (Perron's) supremacy. ...
— The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan • H. G. Keene


Words linked to "Estranging" :   disorienting


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