alienate
Example Sentences
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He thinks such an approach can alienate those with families, as well as experienced older workers who "can actually work far less and achieve much more because they know what they're doing".
From BBC
Yet when the Broncos hired McDaniels in 2009, he managed to alienate both the team’s quarterback and star receiver before ever coaching a game.
That left executives working through the holidays to devise a complicated road back that wouldn’t alienate the players who had stayed all along.
But it’s easy to see why a proprietor might hesitate, since a “Pistols Welcome” banner might alienate other customers.
Mr. Barnes has long brought something exotic to English literature, but never anything so abstruse as to become alienating.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
