How to use "standoffish" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "standoffish" in popular movie and book plots

  • He becomes close to a standoffish woman, Annie, and her sick son, Mike.  - Joyland (novel)
  • Ann finds the house somewhat unnerving, and the staff standoffish and unwilling to talk.  - The Turn of the Screw (2009 film)
  • Peggy finds Molly standoffish toward her.  - Fear in the Night (1972 film)
  • Crystal has a standoffish relationship with her mother, due to the strange magic her mother uses.  - The Grass Dancer
  • He is standoffish towards her and asks her to leave but she stays to show him her bare ring finger.  - Love Song (2000 film)
  • Yoshino and Saori manage to halfway repair their friendship, though Saori is still standoffish to others.  - Wandering Son
  • Meanwhile, Rusty finds Peggy standoffish and cold, and harbours some resentment towards her for having sent her overseas in the first place.  - Back Home (novel)
  • Pete Lewis bottles of whiskey and dates with two Japanese-American women and standoffish reporter Sheila Lincoln.  - Hell to Eternity
  • Many are standoffish at first but soon, after she shares some pies, some begin to talk to her.  - Alexandra (film)
  • He also meets the apparently cold and standoffish Alice Aisgill, who plays many of the leading lady parts.  - Room at the Top (novel)
  • She is standoffish and gives Jerry a wrong phone number, but she is innocently corrected by someone at her table.  - An American in Paris (film)

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