alienate

American businesses reportedly lose $1 billion a year due to "foggy" writing that wastes time, kills contracts, and alienates customers.

This sort of wrongdoing alienates us from the masses and the cadres and debases social morality.

Examination-oriented education suppresses students' nature and alienates students' sense of happiness.

For a fee, they tell their clients not to get cross, that it alienates already volatile journos still further.

But if it alienates potential customers, it has gone too far.

the new teacher alienates the children by behaving prissily.

Prolonged systemic corruption undermines institutions and alienates investors.

The possession of secrets acts like a psychic poison that alienates their possessor from the community.

Marx also claimed that capitalism alienates us from our essential nature and saps us of our creative juices.

Creating a clique may bring you closer to a select few, but it also alienates you from others.

A literal reading of the Bible alienates much of our society.

But her forcefulness alienates some of the kids, who have plans of their own and rebel against her.

She compensates by seeking to control her domain but, like Iran, alienates those who love her and pushes them away.

Right up there with medical lingo, legal jargon confuses and alienates folks, makes them feel stupid and ill at ease.

Criticism merely alienates incumbent regimes.

Defensiveness can be even more dangerous because it angers and alienates those who would give feedback and reinforces their negative views.

The sad emotion also affects my family, my wife alienates me by lavishing too much love on our child.

TYPICAL USE: A doting mother alienates her husband by lavishing too much love on their child.

Add to the fact that he utterly alienates his family in the ensuing years in his quest for justice.

Vivian Bearing is an English professor with a biting wit that educates but also alienates her students.

Technology ultimately separates and alienates people more than it serves to bring them together.

A doting mother alienates her husband by lavishing too much love on their child.

The atmosphere will be "touching" the minute Yu Qiuyu alienates himself from society.

L. A. CLIPPERS: How long will it be before Mike Dunleavy's insufferable arrogance alienates this particular group of players?

In fact, this only disgusts people, alienates the masses, and they put themselves in a corner.

But the blame game never works! It alienates.

One is that it alienates voters.