Translation for "standoffish" to spanish

Standoffish

adjective

• poco amable

Translation examples

poco amable adjective

What have I done, he asks himself, to deserve such fidelity, such wifely trust? He is disappointed, slightly, that she hadn't disputed his rude claim that their son, a thriving ophthalmologist with three dear sun-kissed, dutifully bespectacled children and a bottle-blonde, pure Jewish, superficially friendly but basically standoffish wife from Short Hills, doesn't want his parents nearby.
«¿Qué habré hecho», se pregunta él, «para merecer esta fidelidad, esta confianza conyugal?» Lo ha decepcionado un poco que ella no haya contestado a la grosería de que su hijo, un oftalmólogo acomodado con tres niños tostaditos por el sol y tocados con las gafas de rigor, y su esposa de Short Hills, una rubia de pote, judía pura, superficialmente amable pero en lo básico distante, no los quieran cerca.

What have I done, he asks himself, to deserve such fidelity, such wifely trust? He is disappointed, slightly, that she hadn't disputed his rude claim that their son, a thriving ophthalmologist with three dear sun-kissed, dutifully bespectacled children and a bottle-blonde, pure Jewish, superficially friendly but basically standoffish wife from Short Hills, doesn't want his parents nearby. He and Beth have their myths between them, and one is that Mark loves them as much as they—helplessly, their nest holding only one egg— love him.
«¿Qué habré hecho», se pregunta él, «para merecer esta fidelidad, esta confianza conyugal?» Lo ha decepcionado un poco que ella no haya contestado a la grosería de que su hijo, un oftalmólogo acomodado con tres niños tostaditos por el sol y tocados con las gafas de rigor, y su esposa de Short Hills, una rubia de pote, judía pura, superficialmente amable pero en lo básico distante, no los quieran cerca. Él y Beth tienen sus mitos compartidos; uno es que Mark los quiere como ellos lo quieren a él: inevitable al ser su único retoño.