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5 total sentences available.
The English, he was perfectly aware, had been held by the American to be offish and haughty, and the American had stiffened itself to show that, since the question was of turning an unconscious back, the game was playable wherever backs were broad enough to show....
Source: wiktionary
Called "The Patron Saint of Swag," the self-anointed "most-confirmed bachelor" in Nigeria, he made his fortune in cryptocurrency. Now the offish nouveau riche Q spends his nights wasting his cash.
Source: wiktionary
Nicole mentioned in her exit interview with Julie that she doesn't know if she and Hayden will make their romance "offish" once Big Brother is over, but she did say they will remain friends. I can certainly work with that.
Source: wiktionary
What a ride it's been, people. Kylie Jenner and Tyga reportedly ended their relationship today more than a year after rumors of their coupling first began. The two denied the rumors for months, though their names kept popping up in headlines together more often than ratchetness and Florida. Conspicuously, they became an offish couple as soon as Kylie turned 18 and them boning was no longer illegal under California laws.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include above all that, ailing, aloof, aloof, backward.
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