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alienated

adjective as in estranged

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All in all, this was an extremely strange, even alienating finale.

From Vox

It was a clearly Islamophobic move aimed at further alienating India’s Muslims and the protets were intended to draw attention to that.

The latter risks turning off voters generally if seen as too permissive, but also could alienate progressives if it’s not seen as sympathetic enough, according to the note.

From Fortune

The result is pockets of hyperspecialization, he says, where scientists are siloed in their disciplines and alienated from the public and even each other.

In a bid for survival, they could go the World Health Organization route and embrace China, but that would alienate second-tier powers such as Germany, France India and Japan.

From Ozy

The trouble was, he alienated Pope Pius VI and Pius VII—the latter he actually arrested.

And the geek, Lionel (Tyler James Williams), is a closeted gay who finds himself alienated by blacks and whites.

I knew that there was a God, but I was alienated by organized religion, especially the guilt part of it.

As pollster John Zogby has written, the president has already alienated many young voters for a number of reasons.

The senator has alienated many Tea Partiers and has yet to reach out to bridge the gap, Hofstra said.

His intemperance alienated him from his father, and he died in prison under sentence of death.

And he would not receive them, but broke all the covenant that he had made with him before, and alienated himself from him.

By this time Marius had in addition, to a great extent, alienated the lower classes of the Roman citizens.

At length, when the grumbling of the poor had already gone too far, he readjusted the taxes, and thus alienated the rich also.

Little by little they have been alienated from the institutions of the Republic.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to alienated, such as: disaffected, and alone.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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