How To Use Offish In A Sentence
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Someone who seems stand-offish could be hiding their attraction.
The Sun
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He's usually stand-offish but seems he and the Captain are talking more as of late so I think that gives us a full house.
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Even the most stand-offish of neighbours had no choice but to bump into each other on the stairs.
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You've heard that some of the girls at school think you're snobby and stand-offish.
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Although initially stand-offish, Sistani ordered his people to co-operate with the Americans.
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Okay, so she was sort of uptight and standoffish, but I didn't think much about it.
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Don't assume all English accents betoken toffishness.
Hit & Run
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people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous
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We're not stand-offish or snobbish with them.
The Sun
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His last speech was a good one, it summed up everything he's been working for, but it was a bit stand-offish.
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Typical Edinburgh stand-offishness is being blamed for its failure.
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But it was not until August 6, when Britain's International Television News (ITN) broadcast the first television pictures from the camps, that President Bush found himself forced to defend his "standoffish" policy toward the former Yugoslavia.
America and the Bosnia Genocide
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But the first lady of this portrait can also be a scold, stand-offish and sanctimonious.
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He certainly could be responsive and very, very smart, but there was always that stand-offish quality.
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They are quite often abrasive and offish, but are still human beings, and need to be treated as so.
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I found the lady a little stand-offish and decided that the job wasn't for me after all (I'd suspected this before I actually had the interview, anyway).
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He has not always been popular with his teammates and he has alienated the media by his stand-offishness.
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A cat, for instance, is much more dexterous with its paws than a dog. This dexterity fascinates cat lovers, who also cite the cat's legendary standoffishness as proof of its mental superiority.
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“And I’m not going to be like ‘I don’t like Kate… But, I mean, she’s pretty, you know, standoffish, which is kind of weird.”
Shannen Doherty Mark Ballas First Couple Voted Off “Dancing With The Stars”
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Even the fiercest Rottwieler or the stand-offish German Shepherd becomes as timid as a doe when Murugan takes them by the leash.
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Everyone nodded, except the girls who remained stand-offish.
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In 1861 not one person reported producing any quintals offish.
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Where most of the marines had been somewhat stand-offish or had just ignored him, John was now being greeted by every marine that passed him.
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I have not been very reliable with meme's in recent months....almost to the point of being rude and 'standoffish'.
7 Things You Don't Need to Know About Me
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You come across as cold and stand-offish.
The Sun
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Other children sometimes mis-interpret your little Virgo's shyness as diffidence or stand-offishness.
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Oh and on top of that, he's been acting… offish.
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As Dilys had said, there was a standoffish air about her which might possibly mask shyness.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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At the same time he lacked the pompousness and standoffish attitude which is the way of some foreign correspondents.
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There was little evidence of the usual huffiness and stand-offishness we are normally greeted with.
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An odd thing for anybody to do, but for an Australian particularly in a side like that, in a touring side, it was regarded as being pretty stand-offish, they didn't like it.
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Everyone nodded, except the girls who remained stand-offish.
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standoffish and antisocial
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Even the fiercest Rottwieler or the stand-offish German Shepherd becomes as timid as a doe when Murugan takes them by the leash.
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An odd thing for anybody to do, but for an Australian particularly in a side like that, in a touring side, it was regarded as being pretty stand-offish, they didn't like it.
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And anyone who says that she is standoffish, too serious and close-mouthed most likely has seen her only in performance when she's got one thing alone on her mind: if I'm going to do it, I'm going to give it my all.
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Someone who seems stand-offish is secretly attracted to you.
The Sun
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His last speech was a good one, it summed up everything he's been working for, but it was a bit stand-offish.
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This weekend sees the end to your stand-offish mode.
The Sun
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I can be quite stand-offish, quite reserved.
The Sun
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Some people are receptive, but others are understandably stand-offish.
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Since then, she's been reclusive, stand-offish, and another synonym for those two words.
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Someone who seems stand-offish wants to get to know you much better.
The Sun
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Nobody’s stripes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He may seem a bit standoffish, which is likely just his natural reserved personality.
The Unaffiliated Will Decide
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She writes in the same light, charming, though slightly stand-offish style.
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Described by friends as somewhat shy or stand-offish, Cohen last year married Janet Langhart, a black television journalist.
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Although initially stand-offish, Sistani ordered his people to co-operate with the Americans.
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She never won widespread popular approval with her stand-offish manner.
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Her husband, however, was more stand-offish.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has a reputation for being wooden and stand-offish, but I think he comes across as both personable and thoughtful in his ads.
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As Dilys had said, there was a standoffish air about her which might possibly mask shyness.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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Plentyoffish. com, somewhat self-servingly claims the move is a victory for free dating sites.
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She never won widespread popular approval with her stand-offish manner.
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The characterization of private enterprise as 'standoffish' by a former government insider, whose focus was not cyber, highlights the heart of the problem.
Art Coviello: Government's Earlier Failure to Act Clouds the Facts
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I had met her once briefly (like literally a 3 minute conversation – I only remembered her because the piercing blue eyes/dark hair combo is pretty unusual) at a bar on the waterfront and she struck me as kind of standoffish and stuck up.
Drbigbeef Diary Entry
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It's not quite as interesting, because neither seems particularly comfortable with the commentary track format, especially Snipes, who is laid back to the point of stand-offishness.
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Maryam claims onlooker status to distance herself from the blithering Donaldsons and to dodge the advances of Bitsy’s widowed father, but her aloofness is really ontological, an innate standoffishness familiar to Tyler’s readers.
New Fiction
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Some politicians can be very stand-offish but Mr Blair was very nice and pleasant.
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a standoffish manner
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Someone who seems stand-offish is attracted to you.
The Sun
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Some people are receptive, but others are understandably stand-offish.
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It's a warm evenin ', an' as the wizard glances over at Chet, he notices how that offishul is lazily fannin 'himse'f with a barn-door which he's done lifted off the hinges for that coolin' purpose.
Wolfville Nights
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Even the most stand-offish of neighbours had no choice but to bump into each other on the stairs.
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She writes in the same light, charming, though slightly stand-offish style.
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Since then, she's been reclusive, stand-offish, and another synonym for those two words.
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Maybe if you wouldn't be so offish and mean to us all, they wouldn't ignore you!
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Today, to get away from the rather toffish imagery, car makers call their estate cars by other names.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's usually stand-offish but seems he and the Captain are talking more as of late so I think that gives us a full house.
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You've heard that some of the girls at school think you're snobby and stand-offish.
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Although her publicity shots present her as a sultry, moody, sleepy-eyed blonde with a slightly sneering, stand-offish expression, Herbert couldn't be more down-to-earth, likeable and friendly.
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He hadn't been cruel or physically abusive, merely distant and stand-offish.
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standoffishly, he declined the invitation to the office party
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My son's daycare teacher has a stand-offish attitude to me now.
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If Grover wasn't so stand-offish, we might tell her about it, and she could tell the Saint -- that's what we call the missis; the Saint would soon put a stop to all that nonsense.
Esther Waters
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I found the lady a little stand-offish and decided that the job wasn't for me after all (I'd suspected this before I actually had the interview, anyway).
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Some politicians can be very stand-offish but Mr Blair was very nice and pleasant.
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He certainly could be responsive and very, very smart, but there was always that stand-offish quality.
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She's always standoffish whenever somebody wants to talk to her.
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Some people were a bit offish - not unlike being in a place where not everyone welcomes outsiders.
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He hadn't been cruel or physically abusive, merely distant and stand-offish.
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Although her publicity shots present her as a sultry, moody, sleepy-eyed blonde with a slightly sneering, stand-offish expression, Herbert couldn't be more down-to-earth, likeable and friendly.
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Where most of the marines had been somewhat stand-offish or had just ignored him, John was now being greeted by every marine that passed him.
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The essence of the myth is that the English are standoffish, the Welsh are clannish and only the Scots and the Irish mix with anyone.
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Time to sell? « The Paradigm Shift
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He has a reputation for being wooden and stand-offish, but I think he comes across as both personable and thoughtful in his ads.
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My son's daycare teacher has a stand-offish attitude to me now.
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They look stand-offish or giggle with embarrassment.
Times, Sunday Times
