Sentence examples for is standoffish from inspiring English sources

Bernard is standoffish with them, but that is seen as his moral weakness, not theirs.

He is standoffish and strange and terribly alone, and the other children are intrigued by him and often cruel.

He is standoffish on net neutrality, mobile spectrum rules and the digital divide.

The impulse to document may be even stronger if the avoidant partner is standoffish throughout the night.

Leslie is standoffish and irritable during the interview, and she later confronts Mark, who says that it is a private matter and tells Leslie she is acting like a "huge dork".

The Wyly, a tall box of a building wrapped in a skin of aluminum tubes, is standoffish outside and yoga-flexible within; in classic Koolhaas form, the 600-seat theater dares the Dallas arts establishment to complain about its severe, basement-level concrete lobby, the almost punitively narrow main staircase and a terrace lined with bright-green fake grass.

His workmates were standoffish.

Even then, Codey says, "Jason was standoffish".

Some of the schools of fish (get it?) are standoffish.

We saw them at the gala and they were standoffish".

"They say he was standoffish in high school," Carter said.