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cloister

noun as in secluded religious place

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The assured magnate, the superficial wife, the doted-upon child who was raised so cloistered he whistles canary songs to a tank of crawdads and tries to teach pet tricks to a fish.

Katz suggests that the artists’ apparent desire for a popular hug alienated a cloistered art public.

“It is cloistered, but with an underlying power.”

The rich, dim interiors of Cohn’s cloistered world give way to the gaudy, golden posturing of Trump’s living spaces.

After being cloistered in a basement cage for nearly a year, Tonka just wanted to be outside.

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

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