Sample Sentences for
reticent
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    From the outside the buildings were reticent, severe straight lines of red brick or white clapboard, with shutters standing sentinel beside each window, and...  (source)
    reticent = reluctant
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    He took my hand as we walked to the river, which surprised me, as he's normally reticent to show affection in public.  (source)
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    Jasper had never been reticent, but now it seemed he had to be talking every waking minute as a means of holding his own fears in balance.  (source)
    reticent = reluctant to speak
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    But there was a new reticence to Khanum Taheri's demeanor.  (source)
    reticence = reluctance -- usually to speak freely
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    "No, he was kinda reticent about that part of it. Just said the fellow-was out for his blood and meant to get it."  (source)
    reticent = reluctant to speak
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    The painter's absurd fits of jealousy, his wild devotion, his extravagant panegyrics, his curious reticences—he understood them all now, and he felt sorry.†  (source)
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    They conducted their duties humbly and reticently, with a minimum of fuss, and went to great lengths not to antagonize anyone.†  (source)
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    If she was vulgar, jocular, unreticent, she was also gallant, she was full of laughter at humbugs, she was capable of a loyalty too casual and natural to seem heroic.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreticent means not and reverses the meaning of reticent. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    underlying all this... was both delicacy and reticence.  (source)
    reticence = reluctance (usually to speak freely)
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    she herself has become reticent on the subject, and has not spoken of the Count or his doings ever since we told her of our decision.  (source)
    reticent = reluctant to speak
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    His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.†  (source)
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    But the natural year followed the calendar only very reticently up here; only now, within the last few days, had spring definitely arrived, a spring without any hint of summer's oppressiveness—with spicy, light, thin air, with a radiant, silvery-blue sky and blossoming meadows as colorful as a child's paint box.†  (source)
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    But he felt the same reticence about telling Wendy.  (source)
    reticence = reluctance -- usually to speak freely
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