(1) He told the BBC that, "perhaps naively", he had expected the referendum campaign not to feature politicians so prominently, and he and Cameron could take a more "standoffish" stance.
(2) We were aware of his reputation for being unfiltered and upfront , and that he just says what he's thinking; he can be a bit standoffish, we were told.
(3) We were in a rehearsal room in midtown Manhattan – he walked in and was quite standoffish, quite short, quite like you would expect him.
(4) Yes, the liberals and Labour have all been very standoffish!
(5) Nor is this the only incident where the reader is obliged to take on Mrs Bennet's restricted views; compare the verdict on Darcy's standoffishness at his first public appearance: "His character was decided.
(6) The last Labour government and the present coalition had been "too standoffish as it applies to Scotland", Alexander said.
(7) Char Brown's husband, David, called Page "very standoffish" and "not real friendly".
(8) Honestly, I’m not interested in what’s happening in Russia.” * * * Putin cultivates an enigmatic, standoffish persona, but Kadyrov has no time for such subtlety.
(9) In the historic university town of Kairouan, there was a mosque just a few paces from the apartment he shared with four standoffish friends, but they almost never prayed there.
(10) Whether you love her music and persona or wish she’d vanish off the face of the earth, it’s rare to see a mainstream pop star who functions as both a standoffish auteur and a roaring commercial success – and seems to have a hand in just about every aspect of her creative output.
Unsociable
Definition:
(a.) Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The hours were long and sometimes unsociable, and I knew of just two people who had been offered permanent jobs.
(2) It was also hypothesized that the study of extrinsic and intrinsic factors for pathological unsocialized physical aggression may improve the design of treatment programs.
(3) Mainly, anxiogenic effect, unsocialized aggressive behaviour and explosive aggression were dramatically increased in comparison with the same symptoms present before and after treatment.
(4) For example, junior doctors will not be forced to work longer or more unsocial hours - it’s only the payment for these hours that are up for discussion.
(5) The new minimum came into force in April but a number of retailers and other businesses have offset the rise in basic pay by cutting other benefits such as special rates for unsocial hours or overtime .
(6) Recognition of unsocial hours as premium time, and paid as such.
(7) The BBC's latest offer also included technical changes to its unpredictability working allowance, which compensates staff for working often unsociable and inflexible hours.
(8) The symptom load as parameter for the degree of severity of a disorder was significantly different to the disadvantage of the unsocialized in the 13 year olds between the CD without and with socialization, but was not so in the children and young adults.
(9) NOFT infants were found to be more fussy, demanding, and unsociable.
(10) Meanwhile, sector-wide bargaining arrangements and collective agreements are being weakened by constant local pressure from employers to reduce key conditions, from sick pay to car allowances, redundancy pay and unsocial hours payments, while still maintaining pay "discipline" through centralised bargaining arrangements.
(11) I can’t work out where or how I am supposed to be working harder or longer unsociable hours.
(12) Baxter provides childcare, often at unsocial hours, for one of her daughters, a nurse and single mum with four children under the age of seven.
(13) Maniac temporality is an improductive and unsociable furious flight toward.
(14) There was no significant relationship between anomaly score and obstetrical history or 5-month infant temperament; low significant correlations were found between newborn DBH and 1) infant irritability and unsociable response and 2) 1-year anomaly scores and reported activity levels.
(15) And children miss out seeing their parents or their grandparents who work unsociable hours.
(16) Among the girls, these same behaviors were compressed in a single set, primarily relating energy level but also unsocialness, excitability, and cooperativeness positively with mesomorphy and negatively with endomorphy and ectomorphy.
(17) This represents an impending political problem for the Conservatives: their welfare cuts will seriously hurt parents working long and unsociable hours in low-paid jobs to try to cover rent and bills.
(18) The impulsive and sociable doctors of either sex were less decided about their career plans than their relatively unsociable colleagues.
(19) The sex ratio for severe disorders was male dominated even in adolescence, which was a consequence of the high rate of unsocialized disturbances of conduct in boys.
(20) Ian Sinclair London • The suggestion of an NHS membership fee is the latest example of weird and unsocial reasoning.