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uncompanionable

a. aloof and standoffish

Usage examples of "uncompanionable".

Your father, your mother, found the scattered leaves gathered in a volume, and smiled upon them as not uncompanionable acquaintances.

There was novelty in the scheme, and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.

Ben drove his spade deep and looked as uncompanionable as he had looked when she first saw him.

A comfortless room with two beds and two low-power electric lights, two stiff chairs, an uncompanionable sofa, and some ghastly pictures of simpering naked women.

We loaded the horses, he, I, and deaf old Alf, whom Billy had brought with him, and we worked in uncompanionable silence.