PROUDrather unfriendly and formal 不友好的;冷淡的SYN aloof
She was cold and stand-offish.
她态度冷漠,不甚友好。
—stand-offishlyadverbadv
—stand-offishness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
stand-offish• We sociologists have had good reason to be stand-offish.• You're not so stand-offish after all.• Without wishing to be over-familiar but not to be stand-offish either, I put one hand on her shoulder.• Would he think her very rude and stand-offish now?• Many may interpret such a self-centred approach as selfish or stand-offish - that is too bad.