How To Use Standoffish In A Sentence
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He may seem a bit standoffish, which is likely just his natural reserved personality.
The Unaffiliated Will Decide
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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.
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She's always standoffish whenever somebody wants to talk to her.
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standoffishly, he declined the invitation to the office party
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a standoffish manner
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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
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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
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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
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As Dilys had said, there was a standoffish air about her which might possibly mask shyness.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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Okay, so she was sort of uptight and standoffish, but I didn't think much about it.
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And anyone who says that she is standoffish, too serious and close-mouthed most likely has seen her only in performance when she's got one thing alone on her mind: if I'm going to do it, I'm going to give it my all.
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standoffish and antisocial
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At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents.
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As Dilys had said, there was a standoffish air about her which might possibly mask shyness.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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I have not been very reliable with meme's in recent months....almost to the point of being rude and 'standoffish'.
7 Things You Don't Need to Know About Me
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“And I’m not going to be like ‘I don’t like Kate… But, I mean, she’s pretty, you know, standoffish, which is kind of weird.”
Shannen Doherty Mark Ballas First Couple Voted Off “Dancing With The Stars”
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A cat, for instance, is much more dexterous with its paws than a dog. This dexterity fascinates cat lovers, who also cite the cat's legendary standoffishness as proof of its mental superiority.
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But it was not until August 6, when Britain's International Television News (ITN) broadcast the first television pictures from the camps, that President Bush found himself forced to defend his "standoffish" policy toward the former Yugoslavia.
America and the Bosnia Genocide