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standoffish

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Adjective
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stand=off=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

standoffisha. 
     Shy or distant in manner; cold; aloof; reserved; not friendly.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

standoffish, adj. cold or distant in manner.

Derivative
standoffishly adv. standoffishness n.

THESAURUS

standoffish

Olympian, above all that, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, eremitic, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, haughty, highfalutin, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, insociable, introverted, lordly, misanthropic, modest, offish, pompous, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, snooty, solitary, standoff, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn

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