standoffish

1. Aloof; reserved; unsociable and unfriendly.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524 ↗, part I:

     He was stand–offish with the other agents, and they on their side said he was the manager’s spy upon them.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 16,

     His initial impression was that he was a bit standoffish or not over effusive.

   • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, ch. 7,

     They were always a haughty family, standoffish in a way, as they've a right to be.

• cold
• distant

• Spanish: huraño, huraña, antisocial, arisco, hosco, hurón, apartadizo