offish
Example Sentences
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But the only man who takes an interest in him is an offish fellow named Fitzgerald.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2017
Within a couple of weeks of me moving in we went out for a meal, and as we came back he was basically quite offish with me, and I just didn't understand.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2016
The positioning can be creepily over-friendly or offish.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2014
He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference.
From Time Magazine Archive
I let that down, baited, and I waited to see what sort offish I would catch.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
