Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unaware of the latest developments, as in current events or an area of interest.
- adjective Unable to appreciate or understand the concerns or difficulties of others.
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Examples
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Perversely, people then forget that the consensus itself was originally substantially elite-driven, and dismiss the dissenters as out-of-touch elites.
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The people decided to term-limit an entrenched out-of-touch career politician.
Bennett's bid for fourth term ends at Utah GOP convention 2010
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Yet Steele is not alone in his out-of-touch assertion.
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’ 2010
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Words such as sin, salvation, sanctification, grace, justification, and redemption are archaisms completely out-of-touch with modern-day America.
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She needs to work on that out-of-touch, uninformed, over opinionated, angry spouting sow thing, IMHO.
Rosie O’Donnell, Partner Kelli Carpenter Heading for Break Up? O’Donnell Talks Split 2009
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A Republican in office is most office only going to highlight their own out-of-touch stance.
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To deride the report as coming from a group of out-of-touch academics who live in a fantasy world is to dismiss the decades of real-world experience that Ron Ferguson and I bring to this project.
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And only a truly out-of-touch liberal could believe that 400,000 jobs will suddenly vanish if we stop ObamaCare from bankrupting the country.
Senate Dems: GOP plan would cost 1 million jobs Felicia Sonmez 2011
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A Republican in office is most office only going to highlight their own out-of-touch stance.
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They likened it to his trip to Disney World during a blizzard in December, one of the other times in his year-and-a-half in office when he was painted as out-of-touch.
Christie Takes Flak for His Flight Lisa Fleisher 2011
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