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"stand-offish" Definitions
  1. not friendly towards other people

34 Sentences With "stand offish"

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Rising tides lift all boats, so stop being so stand-offish.
Where she was shy, stand-offish, and skeptical, Samson was trusting, affectionate, and giving.
She's strange, stand-offish, a kind of Amy Dunne wannabe minus the snappy monologues.
Unless a future update gives The Roll a more complex intellect, the app acts like a stand-offish art professor.
He was kind of stand-offish toward the Alabama Legislature when he was attorney general, and that contributed to clashes.
The swift American response to Syria's use of chemical weapons was a surprise, signalling a shift in the Trump administration's hitherto stand-offish approach.
"I guess I appeared stand-offish and when he said it, I thought he was being nice and I felt sorry for him," she said.
The British might seem a bit difficult at first—stand-offish and addicted to odd things like monarchy and Marmite—but they were fundamentally sensible.
"He was very much a loner, very stand-offish" and "didn't interact a whole lot with anyone," Leigh Ann Locascio, a former neighbor, told the Los Angeles Times.
Their little crowd were all garbed out in their punk outfits, some undoubtably bought from SEX or even John's shop, BOY, and as expected were rather stand-offish about the art.
But under the effects of MDMA the stand-offish animals wanted to hug and spend time together, as opposed to their usual behavior of trying to fight each other to the death.
This phenomenon of Resting Bitch Face, shorthand RBF, started off as an oblique insult for a woman whose stand-offish or annoyed look bothered those who thought she should be smiling instead.
He has often appeared stand-offish with the media, regularly punishes opposing defenses, and legend has it that he was responsible for seismic activity when Seattle fans reacted to still one of the most remarkable runs I have ever seen in what gave birth to his Beast Mode nickname.
I've seen over and over again that liberalism fails in the hothouse of electoral contests because it is either deemed to be, or might even in reality be, just a little too stand-offish about a very primitive, understandable and very strong instinct that we all have to belong to some wider entity.
"The weird cauldron that made me – working from the time I was three years old, supporting my family by the time that I was seven, super-strong mom, over-confident personality, celebrity young enough that I learned to be stand-offish … I think there's a whole bunch of reasons why I didn't have the same path as someone who came to Hollywood at 22 with two cents in her pocket and just wanted more than anything else to be an actor," Foster, 55,  told PorterEdit  in an interview released Friday.
Polish Greyhounds or also called Chart Polski are very active dogs. They are known to be protective and loyal. These dogs tend to be well mannered and happy dogs if trained and routinely exercised. They tend to be stand offish to strangers and not fond of other dogs.
Monster Prom features Liam de Lioncourt, one of the six main love interests in this visual novel video game. He is described as "...a hipster vampire whose stand-offish demeanor hid that he was truly a lovable dork." Liam's character was written by Julián Quijano, Cory O’Brien and Maggie Herskowitz and illustrated by Arthur Tien.
Neighbors on Philip Street later described the Gold family as having been unusually quiet and stand-offish, but Harry Gold said he had a happy and secure childhood. He greatly enjoyed learning and was a good student in school. To supplement Sam's modest earnings, Celia taught Hebrew and Yiddish to neighborhood children, and was considered an excellent teacher.
The Institute stood apart from the British Embassy which tended to be stand-offish toward their local nationals. It was in itself an embassy to the survivors of Spain's intellectual eclipse following the Spanish Civil War. One Starkie's early triumphs was organising a recital by the Czech pianist Rudolf Firkušný who, in October 1940, was passing through Madrid on his way to the United States.
Tempest compared this to how Josh treated Paige, "Its almost like karma. Josh was stand offish with Paige and now he's getting a taste of his own medicine. The roles are reversed and he doesn't like being on the receiving end." Josh soon realized the three girls were starting a smear campaign against Boyd Rolleston (Sam Bunkall) and began to question if Lana was who he wanted to date.
She is one-quarter Caucasian, has blonde hair and blue eyes, and is initially shy and stand-offish, but warms up to Keiki's persistent attempts to get to know her. She's secretly a sadist who wishes to make Keiki her slave. She found out about Sayuki's fetish the first time they met and has been fighting to "protect" Keiki from the "Witch's" clutches. ; : : Keiki's classmate and dear friend.
When kept as a family pet, they often form a strong bond with one member of the family and may act stand-offish toward other family members, leading some to describe them as one-person dogs. Once bonded, they are extremely loyal and affectionate to their owners. Due to the breed's alertness, these dogs can make good guard dogs; if not well-trained, the Formosan can become overly protective and aggressive toward strangers.
Despite her intense and stand-offish attitude, in the film she is a key player in defending and extracting Katniss from the 75th Hunger Games, and the beginning of the Second Rebellion. In the 10th Hunger Games, the female tribute Lamina shelters up on a crossbar for two days, only to be killed by the District 4 tributes after they climb it. Lucy Gray kills the male tribute, Treech, with a snake mutt.
Within two years she had found a new admirer in the quiet John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley. She was the socialite and he was stand-offish but entranced by Ava. He was at the centre of government during the second world war and when they married in 1941 he was one of the top four politicians in the country. She had the empathetic skills that her husband lacked, and Churchill noted that he found her useful.
In 1999 guitarist and singer Nikolay (Nikki) Minkov, bassist Alexy Belov, bassist, guitarist Jan Ianenkov, American guitarist Kyle Kyle and drummer Sascha Alexander came together to form Roulette. The band released a self-titled debut album in 1999, featuring a stylized Hammer & Sickle on the cover. The band gained a reputation quickly of being stand-offish with the press and fans which only served to fuel the band's popularity. Their following releases have sold five million copies in Russia.
1) #63 (June 1992) J'onzz assumed the physical form, stand- offish mannerisms and magical powers of Bloodwynd, while Bloodwynd himself was transported and trapped inside of his "blood gem". It was during this time the JLA engaged Doomsday in The Death of Superman series. After being hurled by Doomsday into a burning building, Blue Beetle discovers the merged identity of the two heroes. Soon after, it is revealed that J'onzz had accidentally bonded with Bloodwynd prior to his joining the League.
Behavioral traits in social situations such as smiling, easily producing suitable conversational topics, assuming a relaxed posture and making good eye contact, may not be second nature for a shy person. Such people might only affect such traits by great difficulty, or they may even be impossible to display. Those who are shy are perceived more negatively, in cultures that value sociability, because of the way they act towards others. Shy individuals are often distant during conversations, which can result in others forming poor impressions of them and considering them stand-offish or snobbish.
When unassuming sailor Casey Kirby goes backstage for a famous actress' autograph, he winds up kissing her for a publicity photo. The photo circulates, and Kirby earns a reputation as a ladies man among his fellow sailors. They bet on the chances of him kissing the stand-offish star "The Countess" of the Swingland club during a four-day leave in San Francisco. When they arrive in San Francisco, Kirby attempts to win the bet and finds that he has earnestly fallen in love with the Countess and wants to marry her.
In 1950 it was revealed that one of the scientists at Los Alamos, Klaus Fuchs, was providing the Soviet intelligence bureau, NKGB, with secret information about bomb research. Between 1943 and 1946, Fuchs worked at both Columbia and Los Alamos. When the FBI interviewed Bethe and Feynman about their relationship with Fuchs while at Los Alamos, Feynman said Fuchs was quiet, reserved and not inclined to mix with other scientists outside of work. He also said he believed Fuchs was less stand-offish with Ashkin and seemed friendly with him.
Keeper added she is in "awe" of McFadden and described it as "incredible" to act with him. In her first scene, Keeper was required to "give it her all" as McFadden was acting drunk and had to be a "stand-offish and moody [...] horrible teenage girl" during the "emotional" scenes. Keeper stated she also "adores" working with Reid and Jamie Borthwick, who play her half-brother Ben and brother figure Jay and hopes for further scenes with Linda Henry as she likes their "funny" pairing and "nice relationship". The character was reintroduced, having estranged from Lisa and decided to become "a true Mitchell".
General Hastings Ismay, chief of staff to Winston Churchill, described King as: > tough as nails and carried himself as stiffly as a poker. He was blunt and > stand-offish, almost to the point of rudeness. At the start, he was > intolerant and suspicious of all things British, especially the Royal Navy; > but he was almost equally intolerant and suspicious of the American Army. > War against Japan was the problem to which he had devoted the study of a > lifetime, and he resented the idea of American resources being used for any > other purpose than to destroy Japanese.
He reserves it on behalf of three women he refers to as "family", Florence Hackett and her two daughters, Eleanor and Louisa. The four met in a grocery store and Florence was struck by his manners and clean-cut charm. Eleanor has something of a crush on him, while Richard is drawn to the stand-offish, sexy Louisa, who has a steady boyfriend. The woman in whose bookstore Richard works, knows that he is a disturbed individual who isolates himself; she feels he is too focused on the Hacketts and encourages him to take his doctor's advice to "get out and meet people, make new friends".
Spensa is put into a training flight consisting of the misfit dione Morriumur, Captain Hesho and his crew of tiny kitsen, the figment Vapor, and a rare Superiority human, Brade. The pilots are being trained specifically to fight delvers, which can be drawn into this realm by overuse of cytonics. The humans summoned delvers which destroyed numerous planets during a past war, and while these delvers are long since gone, there is suspicion that they may soon reappear. Spensa befriends all her flightmates except the stand-offish Brade, and she and the group frequently run training exercises on a fake delver maze (the delver's core).
Danny initially indulges in some friendly team hazing of Lindsay Monroe, the detective brought in from Bozeman, Montana, at Mac's request to fill the gap left by Aiden's dismissal. On her first day, Danny tricks Lindsay into calling Mac "sir," a title that Mac has always hated (episode 203, "Zoo York"). Lindsay resents this incident, and over the course of the next episode, they are both stand- offish in their interactions. They soon come to respect each other professionally and develop a friendship. For the remainder of Season 2, their relationship is one of friendly competition and playful banter which is obvious even to their coworkers; the coroner Sid Hammerback tells Lindsay that Danny calls her "Montana" because he has a crush on her (Episode 222 "Stealing Home"). In episode 302, "Not What It Looks Like," Danny's deepening feelings towards Lindsay manifest themselves almost by accident.

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