distancingly
advEtymology From distancing + -ly.
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So as to distance oneself.
- “Personal stuff” is “smoke,” Kate tells Jamie, trying to sound distancingly in control.2007 August 5, Liesl Schillinger, “The Boy Next Door”, in New York Times:
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