uncommunicativeness
IPA: ˈʌnkˈɑmjˈunʌkʌtɪvnʌs
noun
- The quality of being uncommunicative.
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Examples of "uncommunicativeness" in Sentences
- A mystery enveloped his beauty, his uncommunicativeness.
- Dr. Lavendar did not notice his uncommunicativeness; he had his own preoccupations.
- And having thus revenged herself for her colleague's uncommunicativeness, she went her way.
- At breakfast next morning Fanny plied him with questions and was furious at his cool uncommunicativeness.
- Lots of folks grumble about the diffidence, self-absorption and general uncommunicativeness of Generation Y.
- But to the last she retained something of her son's unresponsiveness, and an uncommunicativeness which tagged his as hereditary.
- Alan's uncommunicativeness extended below the level of speech, and his mother, reduced to the helplessness of dead-reckoning, had not even the solace of adapting her sympathy to his needs.
- Nicolovius's haughty aloofness, his rigid uncommunicativeness, his grand ducal bearing and the fact that he paid eighteen dollars a week for a suite had of course made him a man of mark and mystery in the boarding-house, and in the romancings of Miss Miller he had figured as nearly everything from a fugitive crown prince to a retired counterfeiter.
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