Sample Sentences forreticent (editor-reviewed)
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She was reticent initially, but eventually she opened up.reticent = reluctant to speak
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Even among friends, Lena was reticent about her plans.reticent = not willing to talk
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Anybody meeting him there for the first time might have thought him reticent. Almost timid. (source)reticent = reluctant to speak freely
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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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"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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But there was a new reticence to Khanum Taheri's demeanor. (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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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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It was camp policy to give diminished and/or spoiled rations to captives suspected of withholding information, and at times the entire camp's rations were cut to punish one captive's reticence. (source)reticence = reluctance -- usually to speak freely
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Max's roommate seemed on the verge of saying something else but did not. Cooper was not so reticent. (source)reticent = reluctant to speak freely
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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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To an extent, I suppose, his reticence was typical of that part of Minnesota, where privacy still held value, and even if I'd been walking around with some horrible deformity-four arms and three heads-I'm sure the old man would've talked about everything except those extra arms and heads. (source)reticence = reluctance to speak freely
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