standoffish
Example Sentences
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Kirk is appealingly standoffish, if such a thing might be imagined.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026
Yet at the outset, the US appeared strikingly standoffish.
From BBC • May 11, 2025
For her latest movie, “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” Daisy Ridley plays Fran, a drab, standoffish, occasionally obnoxious office worker.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024
Over the course of seven years, we saw them morph from standoffish children — often bullied because of the complexion of their skin — to two young, confident leaders.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
But the older woman did not have that old standoffish expression, did not speak stiffly with her eyes focused somewhere between Olanna’s face and the hand-carved paneling.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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