Examples of use of OFFISH
1. Tall, fiercely intellectual and sometimes stand–offish, Ridley is a DPhil in zoology and wrote his Oxford University doctorate on the mating habits of pheasants.
2. When I remarked on the show–offish nature of that photo, he didn‘t seem to know what I was talking about.
3. He had said Nagin‘s stand–offish style slowed the recovery and had run on a platform of working better with other levels of government.
4. Things between von Trapp and Connie‘s Maria do take a while to smoulder but the Captain is meant to be a stand–offish military man.
5. Heaney writes of a blackbird: Hedge–hop, I am absolute / For you, your ready talkback, / Your each stand–offish comeback, / Your picky, nervy goldbeak – / On the grass when I arrive.