standoffish

Yet at the outset, the US appeared strikingly standoffish.

"Prince did the same thing," he said, "I'm not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, but we weren't surprised because Prince was notoriously kind of standoffish. It's just how he was."

She describes herself as “prickly and standoffish, selectively extroverted, largely humorless.”

"I suspect people may have thought 'oh he's pretty standoffish' but it's a combination of shyness and not knowing what to say," he said.

I went from being very standoffish about him and not trusting him to really enjoying our conversations.