Meanings
comparative more detachedly · superlative most detachedly
- In a detached manner.
For ten months of the year they figured in her life as mere alien phenomena at which she marvelled detachedly, with easy amusement.
1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter I, page 2301 more example
In his second work, “Jérôme Bel,” four naked performers detachedly examine and manipulate their bodies, illuminated by a single light bulb, and eventually urinate onstage.
2008 February 24, Roslyn Sulcas, “Unless You Have Another Word, Dance Will Do”, in New York Times
Origin
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