friendless

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Adjective
  • Pettersson is more withdrawn, more cerebral, more sensitive and certainly not prone to confrontation by nature.
    Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Introverts may become talkative, or extroverts quiet and withdrawn.
    Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • More:How to stay safe as dangerous cold grips much of the country How to prevent a space heater fire A space heater should never be left unattended, experts say.
    Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Ashtyn Paige of Cincinnati had her concerns about what her puppy, Moose, would do when he was left at home unattended.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, the forlorn centre-back was left to reflect on his mistakes.
    Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Note that when forlorn lover Night catfishes lonesome Apo, the film finds a scary new level of social sympathy.
    Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Wind gusts up to 50 mph were forecast with isolated gusts of 75 mph predicted for mountainous areas.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • At their peak, isolated gusts could reach 100 mph in particularly susceptible areas including the San Gabriel and Santa Susana mountains.
    Chris Boyette and Michelle Watson, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of the children who are restrained and secluded are in earlier elementary school grades — both nationally and in Idaho, according to limited data from Idaho school districts and national agencies.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2025
  • At the other end of Eilean Mòr, past a mossy Celtic cross standing like a lighthouse at the island’s tallest point, Sandy showed us the Cave of Saint Cormac, its opening hardly more than four feet high, where eighth-century monks used to retreat for periods of secluded contemplation.
    Leslie Jamison, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That process, undertaken in cloistered seclusion, provides not only the movie’s action but also its warily aggressive tone.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
  • This is not the first time that a group of Silicon Valley elites have attempted to build a cloistered community, away from but still adjacent to the center of the tech industry.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • But for now, Bannon is a fairly lonely voice shouting against AI velocity.
    Axios, Axios, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Some suggested ways to make the dog feel less lonely when Lauren isn't home, such as leaving the TV on.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Tap into a reading community Reading is a solitary activity, but being a reader doesn’t have to be.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Early on, the piece is spare and a bit forbidding, with relentless repetitions of solitary figures.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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