Word: loner
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Most owls roost together in groups of ten or fifteen, but this particular owl is apparently a loner...
PHILIP MARLOWE was always a hard one to figure. He was a loner, and he liked that way. A streak of cynicism ran through him as deep, his creator Raymond Chandler might say, as a spotted geister in a Chicago overcoat sent back-stroking in the blue Pacific. He was a hardened private dick, a real pro, and could trade quips and insults with any manner of wise-cracking low life. When a dumb and slutty millionaire's daughter tries to lead him on in The Big Sleep, cooing "you're cute," the unarousable Marlowe answers back, "What...
...took the man to flick the ash from his cigarette. Most of all, he liked the company of grifters--it never seemed to matter which side they were on. These types even had their own special language, and Marlowe was a professor of it. He never stopped being a loner, but it always helped to know that next day would bring another hood to trade insults with and another city cop to poke...
Rooster [1957, 1969]--You either score heavily or lay a large egg. Although outgoing, you are basically a loner who does not trust most people. However, you are capable of attracting close and loyal friends...
REMEMBER THE resident Loner of your old high school, the one with the seemingly blank gaze and clipped tongue? You know, that Ugly Duckling who you didn't want on your team, at your party or by your side. Mention the Duckling's name, and you could see that familiar smirk form on your friend's face, the required prelude to a "They're so weird" pronouncement. The judgment thus rendered, the outcast would just as quickly fade out of your reality, but upon occasion you might find yourself wondering what exactly lay beneath that inscrutable mask, what made...