Definition of "stand-offish" []

• Alternative spelling of standoffish. (adjective)

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• "In the act of relief, the prime minister called out: “Feeling stand-offish today, Winston?”"
• "Maura in the books is dark-haired, intense, and stand-offish."
• "Sometimes you may be forgiven for thinking that New Yorkers of any stripe can be cold, aloof, and stand-offish, and never more so than whilst strutting their stuff in a Chelsea leather bar, where the stakes are rather higher, at least as far as maintaining the masculinity credentials is concerned, than the opening of an art exhibition, or a midtown book party."