Distant
Formal
Formal adjective - Following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules.
Distant is a synonym for formal in stiff topic. Sometimes you can use "Distant" instead an adjective "Formal", if it concerns topics such as unfriendly.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Hero with Bad Publicity / Villain with Good Publicity: Glass is well-liked, self-effacing and charming, making it easy for people get get on his side against Lane, who is more distant and formal, and viewed as more of a distrusted interloper after he got the job previously held by a popular editor.
Source: Film / Shattered Glass - Tali's father's position on her people's Admiralty Board puts her under enormous pressure to prove herself to other members of her culture, as well as causing her relationship with him to be somewhat distant and formal.
- Played for Laughs in Bleach; Mizuiro Kojima and Keigo Asano are commonly seen together, and as of recently Mizuiro has been speaking to Keigo in a very formal and distant way, to which Keigo dramatically screams at him to stop using keigo...which the word is a homonym with his name.
Source: Keigo
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