offish
adjective
aloof; unapproachable; standoffish.
offishness
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a word derived from
offish.
Example Sentences
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This offishness and even hostility on the part of the dogs did not much disturb the boys.
From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by J. E. Laughlin
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 Nora Perry
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 Nora Perry
He was both child and poet to her, and as she watched him trying to make friends with the men, her indignation rose against their clownish offishness.
From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Hamlin Garland
Practical politics may be said to be foreign to Quaker Hill, for reasons drawn from its isolation and religious offishness.
From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson
