offishness
- a word derived from offish.
Example Sentences
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Yes, stiff and offish, but dreadfully polite, and in spite of it—the offishness, I mean—I liked you.
From Hope Benham A Story for Girls by Perry, Nora
I never saw anybody so persistent as you were, Dolly; you fairly pushed her into stiffness and offishness.
From Hope Benham A Story for Girls by Perry, Nora
Dorothy had, in truth, received the rigorously courteous overtures of her future mother with the polite offishness of a scared but well-trained child, and the proud elder woman had not increased them.
From Madelon A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
The unexpected return of this relic has aroused a new spirit in them, and I can see a little offishness and suspicion.
From The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Mencl, Rudolf
If you don’t suggest offishness, none will be suspected.
From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
