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synonyms for standoffish
- aloof
- antisocial
- cool
- eremitic
- haughty
- indifferent
- misanthropic
- reclusive
- remote
- reserved
- solitary
- unapproachable
- uncompanionable
- unsociable
- withdrawn
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How to use standoffish in a sentence
Every standoffish adult survived as a chick by this cuddling.
Three love stories about birds that will delight your heart | Laura Erickson | November 6, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIn Google’s earliest days its co-founders were standoffish at best with journalists.
A father whose son played soccer with Holmes recalls that the young man was “kind of a strange, standoffish kid,” he said.
Colorado Shooting Suspect James Holmes’s Life in Aurora | Christine Pelisek, Eliza Shapiro | July 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Jack and Jill, the two biggest ones, they was a leetle mite standoffish and inclined to play it safe.
Stepsons of Light | Eugene Manlove RhodesHe seemed to be extremely standoffish, cold from embarrassment, and proud from lack of graciousness.
Royal Highness | Thomas MannHis initial impression was he was a shade standoffish or not over effusive but it grew on him someway.
Ulysses | James JoyceThe meal ended, she rose and swept him a curtsey, neither over-friendly nor standoffish.
Two Sides of the Face | Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchI am sure I don't know what to think of the English students being "standoffish" with Americans.
Virginia | Ellen Glasgow
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