standoffishness

Example Sentences

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Perhaps that will change as monarch, but as Prince of Wales he developed an affable, grandfatherly style, with no standoffishness.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2022

Virginia Tech is more than willing to conjure Beamer nostalgia to erase the perceived standoffishness of Fuente.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

This kind of standoffishness, saying Black people need to just be for Black people, is not Cedric’s position at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2021

Ruffalo, in his round-shouldered, restrained performance, seemed to have uncannily captured Bilott’s trout-lipped solitude, a standoffishness that made him seem permanently braced.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019

Of Mia’s—well, standoffishness, even as she spent hours a day in Mrs. Richardson’s own home, in this very kitchen.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng