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offish

[ UK /ˈɒfɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking cordiality; unfriendly
    a standoffish manner

How To Use offish In A Sentence

  • I had met her once briefly (like literally a 3 minute conversation – I only remembered her because the piercing blue eyes/dark hair combo is pretty unusual) at a bar on the waterfront and she struck me as kind of standoffish and stuck up. Drbigbeef Diary Entry
  • Maybe if you wouldn't be so offish and mean to us all, they wouldn't ignore you!
  • Since then, she's been reclusive, stand-offish, and another synonym for those two words.
  • She writes in the same light, charming, though slightly stand-offish style.
  • Even the most stand-offish of neighbours had no choice but to bump into each other on the stairs.
  • It's a warm evenin ', an' as the wizard glances over at Chet, he notices how that offishul is lazily fannin 'himse'f with a barn-door which he's done lifted off the hinges for that coolin' purpose. Wolfville Nights
  • Some people are receptive, but others are understandably stand-offish.
  • Someone who seems stand-offish is attracted to you. The Sun
  • a standoffish manner
  • Some politicians can be very stand-offish but Mr Blair was very nice and pleasant.
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