closemouthed
IPA: kɫˈoʊsmˈaʊðd
adjective
- reticent, secretive or uncommunicative
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Examples of "closemouthed" in Sentences
- In a quarter of an hour, a closemouthed Roark reappeared.
- On the other hand there is a society that is closemouthed by design.
- They were both very closemouthed about their studies together as such things are private.
- They tried to get information out of Rams, but he was as closemouthed as the woman he loved.
- From the moment she entered the building on Twenty-third and E that brisk December morning, everyone had been very formal and closemouthed.
- Though Declan had become an expert at torture, the immortals were astonishingly closemouthed, even withholding information about their natural enemies.
- He is closemouthed on the specifics of other cuts, but in San Francisco recently he strongly hinted, to an audience composed mostly of Marine Corps veterans, that he is aiming at one of the Marines 'most cherished programs, a high-speed assault craft for amphibious landings.
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