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"standoffish" Definitions
  1. somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.

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Its standoffish stance on advertising also turned off many podcasters.
"They say he was standoffish in high school," Carter said.
If the team's lodging seems standoffish, that is by design.
They were standoffish with me and they had an attitude.
" He also said that Swift seemed "cold and standoffish toward me.
Britain shouldn't have adopted a standoffish "sulk" as its political position.
Don't be overly friendly or familiar; don't be standoffish or skittish.
Germany, often standoffish, should give Mr Macron the benefit of the doubt.
He was exactly as you'd imagine: standoffish, prickly, fussy, but OK really.
When he sees you for the first time, he's standoffish and suspicious.
"She walked in the door and she was very standoffish," Courtney recalls.
This was typical of how Hadid was portrayed by journalists: standoffish, removed.
Kai is naturally standoffish, especially around men—big, bearish ones above all.
There is no possible alliance with the neutral kobolds or standoffish giants.
He no doubt wondered why I was being so standoffish and reserved.
He's standoffish, speaks directly, and doesn't give much in the way of emotions.
He's an arrogant jerk, which makes her in turn act mean and standoffish.
Her being standoffish is anxiety that paralyzes her which u take as rude!
"Other than being standoffish, you hold her and she starts purring," Russell adds.
So wearyingly standoffish, resisting the E.U. even while enveloped and protected by it.
After the game, his father, a Red Sox fan, acted standoffish toward him.
Eyewitnesses say Mama June was standoffish, but Geno seemed happy somebody recognized him.
"I was a little standoffish at first, but they won me back," Cranston said.
It's not that she was standoffish, she just wasn't as gregarious as her husband.
"Some people were enthusiastic about it, but quite a few were standoffish," Stanton says.
De Blasio's allies in the civil rights movement condemned him for the standoffish attitude.
She had spunk but came off as standoffish and mean because she couldn't express it.
The vibe of the interview instantly changed from open and friendly to stiff and standoffish.
I find cats standoffish and enigmatic, and don't get me started on the cat litter.
It's about the popular girl who can't date until her more standoffish sister begins dating.
Soon she becomes entangled romantically with Beatriz's son, Marco, and clashes with her standoffish daughter, Raquel.
In addition, Baldridge referenced Mueller's description of Swift in a court deposition as cold and standoffish.
Before arriving in Chile, I had been told by some of Aravena's colleagues that he's standoffish.
Light gets beat up at school; his teachers don't understand him and his father is standoffish.
"You could just see he was very standoffish, and... didn't want to approach me," she said.
It's the romance of new friendship between Deb and Warren, which blossoms despite her standoffish resistance.
One day they told him how they saw him: arrogant, standoffish, still cloaked in gangster swagger.
Russell was also standoffish, he said, and his bitterness at his treatment was palpable at times.
The light is flat, the contrasts are harsh, and the colors, dominated by mossy greens, are standoffish.
When Bradley made an offhand comment about the Boston shootings, Hernandez became upset and standoffish, Bradley said.
Soon the internet's cool rich kids started playing with ways to make AirPods even more obviously standoffish.
Their dynamic isn't entirely healthy, but Morris' relationship with the jaded, standoffish local teenagers isn't much better.
" Her father was more standoffish, but, she said, "as time went on, he began to love him.
They can be irreverent or provocative, and are sometimes a seemingly conflicting blend of standoffish and humanitarian.
Asainov lived in Brooklyn from 1998 to 2013, and neighbors described him as standoffish but otherwise fine.
Baldridge also referenced Mueller's description of Swift in a court deposition as cold and standoffish when they met.
It was a little standoffish at first and a little lethargic, but he let me get him out.
They may be standoffish at first, but once won over they're fair- and foul-weather friends for life.
People often say they think I'm cold or standoffish, but I'm just not a good schmoozer at all.
Elliot was too cold, standoffish and unlikable, Mr. Esmail concluded, and that was why no audition had clicked.
But his answers Thursday were lengthy, not standoffish, and he often turned to speak directly to the jury.
Janice, always standoffish, shook Gerald's hand, then joked that in flu season one should really only rub elbows.
Instead of laughing at this preposterous predicament, the art world marches on in standoffish seriousness, likely in stilettos.
Except Gillespie wasn't there, irking some Trump supporters who say the Republican has been too standoffish toward the president.
Have you ever heard anyone complain that The Weeknd is too standoffish and should work on his dance moves?
And so she's been a little standoffish with my parents, 'cause she's just not comfortable and she's really particular.
Reclusive and standoffish, May is a woman whose connections with plants have prevented her from making connections with people.
"When I started out, people were a little standoffish because of fear, because of my ancestors," James Anastasio said.
He is standoffish and strange and terribly alone, and the other children are intrigued by him and often cruel.
She brings up the reunion episode, and it's clear she's still upset that Monique Heart called her fake and standoffish.
He's a great player, infuriatingly so, but over the past five years, he has become reclusive, standoffish, and undeniably weird.
And for the people who think cats are standoffish—are you immediately open and friendly with random humans you meet?
Initially standoffish, she starts to bond with the other wrestlers when Ruth throws a roller-skating party for Sheila's birthday.
The young, standoffish minister's popularity was low amongst his contemporaries, but he was also known as an adept debater and administrator.
He reflected some of that standoffish attitude toward assertive woman in his treatment of Ella Baker, a legendary civil rights organizer.
The congregation was mostly well-to-do South Koreans, who tended to be standoffish toward the poorer North Koreans in their midst.
Jaime has been back in King's Landing for a while and Cersei has been standoffish, telling him he's been gone too long.
Stern added that although skulls have become something of a kitschified fashion accessory, many of us still have a standoffish relationship with death.
Once considered standoffish, genteel and politically marginal, they are now viewed as being emblematically engaged players within the power network of global capitalism.
As Lindsey learns to navigate the upper-crust Society, she must put up with Prince Stormington II, a Lupe (wolf Neopet) with standoffish manners.
Among them are ambivalent Cause fighter Michele, the cheater Rafael, the earnestly determined Fernando, the standoffish genius Joana, and the entitled "legacy" kid Marco.
Dunham clarified in a series of tweets that she didn't actually think Beckham was being standoffish — she was just taking a jab at herself.
"If you're introverted, it can mean some see you as standoffish or not ambitious," says Aarons-Mele, who runs her own marketing campaign company.
He made some missteps -– as a rookie he was certainly too moody and he turned off some teammates because he seemed a bit standoffish.
They write: Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons.
China rewards emollient Taiwanese governments with economic fillips such as a boom in tourism from the mainland, and punishes standoffish ones by taking them away.
The actor told Defective Geeks in an interview that people sometimes think he's a bit standoffish when they first meet him so he understood Jared.
After she confronted him for being standoffish towards the beginning of the episode, he admitted he was just trying to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
They demand that people do things simply because the boss requires it, or act abrasive and standoffish to show that they're in a senior position.
And its mutually standoffish relationship with the Democratic Party, dating to the 1970s, stands in stark contrast to Christian conservatives' sway over the Republican Party.
Aquarius energy is pioneering, brilliant, eccentric, original, standoffish, aloof and detached, and these are the energies we will be working with over the next month.
" He goes on to explain that he feels Khloé has been "standoffish" and at the end of the day, "Y'all not really my f—ing kids.
If a cat is not adequately stimulated or is forced to have hours and hours of social isolation, he or she may seem standoffish and disinterested.
A group of older white boys—who had been acting standoffish towards me the whole time, questioning if I was "really Jewish"—pounded on my door.
"The letter sounded like she wanted me in her life, but she's been standoffish, partly because, from what I gather, it's so overwhelming," Ms. Liff said.
Pisceans don't tend to be standoffish, but they do like their privacy; they are sensitive to energies around them and can easily become exhausted by sensory overload.
Queens have been vilified as women for eating the wrong thing or wearing the wrong clothes or being too standoffish rather than as partners in class oppression.
"A lot of case managers or standard health care services providers are very standoffish with anyone in the financial realm," said Jim Grubman, founder of FamilyWealth Consulting.
At first, Mr. Pence was standoffish and skeptical — only to become the suitor as the days wore on, fervently pursuing Mr. Trump and the No. 2 slot.
As Aquaria said, she's sort of reserved and standoffish, just like Melania Trump, so she turned what is usually a negative and turned it into comedy gold.
Some who work in the White House have noticed that he seems more standoffish, less likely to engage in small talk with those outside his inner circle.
"She's definitely a little more standoffish ... not the type of cat to walk up to you," Saffoe said, indicating the bobcat's surly nature will keep her from confessing.
Here the buzzy, standoffish basslines and, multifaceted drum tracks set the mood, while the R&B choruses and fluttery electronic arpeggios play as queasy memories of love lost.
This fall, when Dr. Smith met the boy's parents at school and told them that medication could help their distracted, failing son, the father was standoffish and suspicious.
Her look, paradoxically standoffish and in your face, is punctuated by shocks of blue or green hair, riotously patterned tops and tracksuits, and thorny punk and goth references.
Kodak is standoffish and despondent at the beginning of the interview, taking several silent minutes to answer a simple question about where he got his rap name from.
Be smart: Snap CEO Spiegel is under tremendous pressure internally and externally to drop the standoffish, secretive approach and start telling the Snapchat story with more punch and imagination.
For years now Mr. de Blasio has been standoffish to the department, leaving his commissioner to deal with the toughest questions about policing, just as he did on Monday.
Men appear at the start, but they soon abandon the stage to a contingent of women led by the quicksilver veteran Lauren Grant, who is both fleeting and standoffish.
You would imagine that, with people asking for pictures with you all the time and asking the same questions over and over again, Beefeaters might be a bit standoffish.
These include a rejection of infant baptism (that was the defining feature of the Anabaptist movement from which all Mennonites sprang) and a quietist but standoffish attitude to earthly authorities.
Unlike former President Obama, who was criticized for being standoffish and ignoring lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Trump has told congressional leaders he wants to be "directly engaged" in this process.
Physical suffering aside, the movie's central question is whether Álvaro — a gregarious but fundamentally standoffish sort whose wanderlust distances him from everyone he loves — truly has enough to live for.
Michel Laplante, the president of the Can-Am League's Quebec Capitales, who provided the inspiration for the Cuban tour, said it was wrong to interpret the national team's behavior as standoffish.
His poker face gave away nothing to opponents or to news media critics, who always gave him his due, admitted he was great, but occasionally lamented his standoffish off-court persona.
As I learned after moving to Paris in 2006, when compared with Americans, the French may be standoffish and circumspect at first, but once they let you in, you are family.
He's as snarling, standoffish, and straight up fucking cool as he was 20 years ago, and though the track does just kinda sound like latter-era Oasis, he sells it just right.
Her lyrics in this fertile early 280s era were highly analytical, closely observational, and deeply feminine, revealing an artist both anxious but cool, sensual but standoffish, shy but demanding, confident but evolving.
This population, which includes those who live in the subways and on the streets, has soaring rates of mental illness and addiction, and its members are thought to be standoffish, at best.
Whereas characters like Batman and Superman are standoffish, cynical and act out of a joyless sense of duty, Wonder Woman is warm, believes human beings are inherently good and fights alongside them.
Mr. Lindh, now 219, his parents, lawyers and prosecutors all declined to discuss where he will live or his other plans after prison, where he has been described as a studious, standoffish prisoner.
It's like the musical equivalent of people thinking you're rude or standoffish when you're actually shy: there are processes going on silently in your head that don't always translate as clearly as they could.
She's the exact opposite of his retired partner Hynes said his new partner is a bit standoffish right now, which is understandable given what she has gone through, but she is full of energy.
When I meet Shepherd at the Beverly Hills estate she shares with her boyfriend, Apple Music head of content Larry Jackson, I expect her to be standoffish, a glamazon constantly glued to her iPhone.
You can hardly fault the cast, which centers on Blanchett as Bernadette Fox, a semi-reclusive mother whom her Seattle neighbors find standoffish and her brilliant AI engineer husband Elgie (Crudup) finds frustratingly aloof.
"He's been able to be a consistent professional, someone who should be in the Hall of Fame someday, and yet was never standoffish, was great with the media and great with teammates," Sullivan said.
Such a slightly standoffish attitude was embodied by many of the members of my group, who were either too timid, too cool, or too drunk to give themselves over to the participation that made Doomocracy most effective.
Surrounded by vibrant colors and surreal imagery, the blue-haired pop star is both warm and standoffish, both youthfully joyful and starkly intimidating — not so much sliding between extremes and binaries as she is rejecting them completely.
Over the span of an hour, he ran the spectrum of emotions, from sincere and thoughtful to lighthearted to standoffish, and there was no way of knowing which questions or remarks would elicit which version of him.
Mr. Johnson's style of leadership is very different stylistically from Mr. de Blasio's, who can often appear standoffish at news conferences and tends to avoid many of the ancillary appearances typically demanded of a mayor in New York.
St-Pierre has previously been pretty standoffish with his stance on a return, but during his appearance on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani yesterday, 'Rush' insisted that the time is now for his return to the Octagon.
Prince Mohammed has reversed previously standoffish relations with Shia-dominated Baghdad to cultivate ties with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and senior Shia clergy in the city of Najaf, attempting to decrease Iran's influence.
Speaking to journalist Dave Itzkoff (who, bless his heart, sounds like had to deal with some standoffish answers like "I don't even know what you just said," which was allegedly growled), Phoenix details his experiences on set during Joker.
I'm happy with the yawning face, as it looks similar across platforms (I like Twitter's the best because I think it almost looks standoffish, which seems perfect for Twitter), and it's pretty close to the design in my proposal.
"Gold's solid showing so far this year ... is mostly attributable to a weaker dollar and last week's standoffish Federal Reserve statement with regard to when it would next move on rates," INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir said in a note.
Not surprisingly, the Iranian leadership has been somewhat standoffish in terms of plunging headlong into any major American contracts, particularly with the erratic administration in Washington and a deeply damaged secretary of state and Congress it is being forced to confront.
Nadia believes, deep down, that her mother died young because of her decision not to live with her after child services got involved, and she has shouldered that burden all her life, remaining distant and standoffish when it comes to intimacy.
Pick any inflection point you like from the past several years—the Trump election, Brexit, any one of a number of data breaches, alt-right feeding frenzies, or standoffish statements to Congress—and you'll see the malign hand of platform monopolies.
"He was congratulating one of the Brits that I had just sprinted against, and we were all kind of together getting our medals, and this gentleman was a little standoffish because he had just finished a race and was really sweaty," says Reynolds.
Tonymacx86, for example, is an incredibly useful website for Hackintosh builds, but it's worth noting that the forum can feel a bit standoffish if you're new to it, if only because their platform has to deal with a lot of repeated questions.
"I think that even though Kate can come across somewhat standoffish, and understandably so, it doesn't mean that she doesn't want to find love or have romance or even just enjoy the company of someone in a closer, more intimate setting," he says.
AT&T's response has the same message at its core, but the tone couldn't be more different: it's standoffish and argumentative, with AT&T's public policy chief, Bob Quinn, trying to explain why nothing has changed and the FCC was wrong in the first place.
Yes, mmDust is arguably being standoffish and impersonal, but he was also responding to an antagonistic environment that spent a good chunk of an hour wearing him down and telling him that he was wrong for not wanting to be friendlier with his viewers.
"We tell them to keep their guard up, not in a way to make them standoffish from the community but in a way to make them safe so they're able to go home at night," said Steven D. Anderson, the police chief in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
That episode collapses an entire relationship into an afternoon: Though Hannah is standoffish at first, Chuck draws her into an intimate exchange in which he challenges her journalism, flatters her intelligence, scrounges for sympathy, plies her with gifts, and then — oops — pulls out his penis.
"I guarantee you that every senator who's sitting in office now, including an indirect standoffish guy like Rand Paul, they've got five to 15 key contacts on their scorecards at the Aipac office," Mr. Dine said, referring to the isolationist Republican senator from Kentucky.
While we're not suggesting that people who hold these positions are all standoffish, the following jobs pay on average more than $55,000 a year according to O*NET, have an average required sociability score of 65 or less, and therefore require minimal good-natured interaction with others.
Trixie, who's not social and hates hugs, said she wants to be less standoffish; Kennedy, who'd copped to coming off as a grump in Season 7, lamented not being a fan favorite; and BeBe was shocked — and delighted — to hear that people thought she was elitist.
The intense, thin-skinned freshness of Brandywines, the apricot glow of Jaune Flamme, the green standoffish shoulders of Black Krims, and my personal favorite, Rose de Berne, with its blush of color and amazing taste—all those heirlooms are the product of long-ago, hand-me-down mutations.
ALBANY — To many in Albany, New York's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, seemed staid and somewhat standoffish: a teetotaler who favored coffee shops over bars, liked yoga and health food and preferred high-minded intellectual and legal debate to the hand-to-hand combat of New York's political arena.
It plays as an endless series of payoffs, in some cases for long arcs — like Tony Stark's standoffish, dismissive relationship with Spider-Man (Tom Holland), whom he starts the film mourning in a passionate, personal way — and in other cases, for the tiniest of passing jokes from other MCU movies.
Yet if some presidents have slogged through the more ceremonial elements of the office — grimacing through regrettable puns written by aides, counting the seconds until they could return to federal duties that did not include standoffish poultry — Mr. Trump appeared perhaps more comfortable than usual, unburdened by forces beyond his jurisdiction.
After 25 years, the titular host — a Letterman stand-in furnished with Fairfield County mansion, menagerie of exotic cars and "Tonight Show" heartbreak — is stepping down, and neither he nor June Bloom, the show's standoffish writers' assistant, has much of a plan for what happens once "Stay Up" goes to bed.
Aside from the standoffish immigration officers that stamp my passport with raised eyebrows, and East Coast winters that still do not agree with me, I am in a state of relative bliss in the United States, tucked between leather-bound stacks at the library, immersed in the luxury of reading and thinking.
There's a movie to be made just about David Blatt, honestly, although as it would focus on an ultra-driven and relentlessly standoffish man in a suit who drives others away with the force of his difficulty, it would have to have been made by David Mamet before he got really into conservative talk radio and men's rights, and we've already been over how stingy Hollywood is with time travel technology.
Under the headline ''TRAITOR IN CHIEF,'' he denounces Alex for acknowledging the Russian hack; then he starts a campaign for Alex to be fired, sends an open letter to Breitbart's co-founder and chief executive, Larry Solov, and tells a reporter at The Daily Caller that Breitbart is coming undone not only because Alex is ''standoffish,'' ''arrogant'' and ''smug'' but also — and here's the kill shot in right-wing media — because he ''does not get basic narratives.
For the past month, McKann has been chasing down displaced dogs, like Shadow, a sweet, black collie mix found alone in the Sand Banks, feeding them twice a day, and helping construct a kennel to house the pups before they're sent back to families or to shelters in the US. "A lot of them are very standoffish, so we feed them for a while to build trust so you can get some trucks to them and get them safe, like them two," McKann said, nodding to Peach and Schnapps.

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