undemonstrative
IPA: ʌndɪmˈɑnstrʌtɪv
adjective
- Not given to showing emotion or feelings; reserved or distant.
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Examples of "undemonstrative" in Sentences
- Virgos are undemonstrative due to a coolness in their nature.
- Sumner's parents were described as exceedingly formal and undemonstrative.
- She is undemonstrative in her love for Maya but uncompromising in that love .
- Roger was an undemonstrative player, and a quiet and modest man off the field.
- He was a kindly, easy-going man; but, after the way of a large percentage of the Western stock, he was undemonstrative.
- The undemonstrative Kessel packed 30 goals into 63 games before falling back at the end (no goals in his final six starts).
- I am not generally a flag-waving hand-on-heart type of guy; my patriotism is quieter, just about silent and always most undemonstrative.
- He seemed to believe, in an undemonstrative sort of way, that elections were consequential events in the life of a country, and that however puerile and disingenuous campaigns could be, their purpose was important.
- Clean-cut Hurts duo Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson are aiming for a kind of undemonstrative Pet Shop Boys studiousness in their personal presentation, reflected in the well-manicured lines of their classy pop songs.
- Their son, John, who was ten at the time of his mother's first psychiatric hospitalization, found his father, the man who was then revered as "America's doctor," to be "undemonstrative" and someone who made him feel "judged, criticized, scared [and] beaten down."
- Even when it is a practical, living thing that can be felt and built on, it is often almost cold-bloodedly inarticulate and undemonstrative, which is the only kind of sympathy acceptable to a man in trouble, especially a man of Druro's type, who did not want to discuss the thing at all, but just to take what was coming to him with a stiff lip.
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