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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alien to him" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is unfamiliar or strange to someone.
Example: "The concept of meditation was completely alien to him before he attended the workshop."
Alternatives: "foreign to him" or "strange to him".
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He eschews defense as if it were alien to him.
The Japanese musical vocabulary was simply utterly alien to him.
While some of it offends him, none of it is alien to him.
Even Roman Catholicism remained alien to him, a fact that Tolkien much resented.
"Other people's emotions are alien to him," Choire Sicha, another Gawker alumnus, said.
What he has the nerve to call "the fag elements of fashion" were alien to him.
To be out having to boss people around is so alien to him".
Today's politics of goodness, of morality rather than might, are profoundly alien to him.
His breakdown work, for example, which was completely alien to him.
Sylvia says the program started Michael soul-searching, which was alien to him.
Formality was alien to him, from dinner jackets to stays or crinolines.
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