alienating 的定义
al·ien·at·ed, al·ien·at·ing.
- to make indifferent or hostile: By refusing to get a job, he has alienated his entire family.
- to cause to be withdrawn or isolated from the objective world: Bullying alienates already shy students from their classmates.
- to turn away; transfer or divert: to alienate funds from their intended purpose.
- Law. to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another: to alienate lands.
alienating 近义词
cause unfriendliness, hostility
更多alienating例句
- It’s characteristic of this intelligent but alienating text, which works better as literary criticism than biography, that Bradford feels no need to display any compassion for such a sad, lonely end.
- Many social media companies have been hesitant to come out and say some sources are less trustworthy than others for fear of alienating part of their audience.
- Goldwater wanted to distance himself from the conspiracy theories, but he feared alienating his base.
- He seems to have done much more to alienate the other side, with 54 percent of Democrats having a “very unfavorable” opinion of him.
- Telling a new mother that she is hurting her child will further alienate you from her.
- Do the Republicans want to alienate important constituencies they will need in 2016?
- The President did not want to alienate Southern legislators whose votes he needed on his New Deal legislation.
- Further violence and escalation of the events into a civil war would only alienate him from the bulk of the Ukrainian people.
- Positioning yourself against President Obama is a good way to alienate the most important constituency in the Democratic Party.
- That may work spectacularly well, or it may alienate some users.
- A Christian who would attain perfection, ought to drive away from his mind all that can alienate him from heaven—his true country.
- In 1790 Pitt was opposing his wishes elsewhere; he was unwilling to alienate him altogether, and agreed to put pressure on Russia.
- Such cruel insinuations can never alienate from you the friends who love you.
- He lampooned the prince regent, yet he could not alienate the Tories.
- We could not see what should again alienate us from one another, or how one brother could again oppress another.