standoffish

Example Sentences

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In this account of life with a wild creature—a being by turns serene and frisky, trusting and standoffish—Ms. Dalton connects readers with the strangeness of the natural world.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet at the outset, the US appeared strikingly standoffish.

From BBC

"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."

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

"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.

From BBC