standoffish

How To Use standoffish In A Sentence

• He may seem a bit standoffish, which is likely just his natural reserved personality. The Unaffiliated Will Decide
• The essence of the myth is that the English are standoffish, the Welsh are clannish and only the Scots and the Irish mix with anyone.
• She's always standoffish whenever somebody wants to talk to her.
• standoffishly, he declined the invitation to the office party
• a standoffish manner
• Maryam claims onlooker status to distance herself from the blithering Donaldsons and to dodge the advances of Bitsy’s widowed father, but her aloofness is really ontological, an innate standoffishness familiar to Tyler’s readers. New Fiction
• 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
• The characterization of private enterprise as 'standoffish' by a former government insider, whose focus was not cyber, highlights the heart of the problem. Art Coviello: Government's Earlier Failure to Act Clouds the Facts
• As Dilys had said, there was a standoffish air about her which might possibly mask shyness. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
• Okay, so she was sort of uptight and standoffish, but I didn't think much about it.