Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
alienate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing hostility or loss of friendliness
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Examples
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Ironically, even Talk Turkey was unimpressed by Obama's efforts to appease both Armenians and Turks, but mainly because it believes the president only succeeded in alienating everybody.
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With all the direct attacks on our heritage doing something like this does far more harm in alienating people.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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With all the direct attacks on our heritage doing something like this does far more harm in alienating people.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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With all the direct attacks on our heritage doing something like this does far more harm in alienating people.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Big companies have no interest in alienating half their customers, which strong electoral advocacy would do in a basically 50 – 50 electorate.
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With all the direct attacks on our heritage doing something like this does far more harm in alienating people.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Ultimately, the operation was focused on the inside game, run by insiders uninterested in alienating people they'd need in their next gig.
Harry Reid, The Man Who Never Says Goodbye The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Someone - all too often - it feels like Cascade is more interested in alienating people than winning people over.
Cascade Encourages Members to Send Rasmussen Tums for Nickerson “Indigestion” « PubliCola 2010
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It also seems that the BPA takes a macarbe delight in alienating itself and thus perpeptuating the minority/victim label.
Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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With all the direct attacks on our heritage doing something like this does far more harm in alienating people.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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