Sentence example with the word 'secretiveness'

secretiveness

Definition n. characterized by a lack of openness

Last update: July 23, 2015


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He had the instinctive secretiveness of the inveterate criminal.   [Please select]

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In her heart she added secretiveness to the long list of Clayton's deficiencies toward her.   [Please select]

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Rudyard, who understands Life's violence, would understand that; what he could never understand would be perpetual artifice, unseemly secretiveness.   [Please select]

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Jealousy and secretiveness are much rarer among them than in Europe.   [Please select]

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But he suffered--had always suffered--from the jealous reserve which underlay her charm, her inborn tendency to secretiveness and intrigue.   [Please select]

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There was no secretiveness about the stranger's movements; on the contrary, there was an airy boldness.   [Please select]

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On the general principle that frankness is always better than secretiveness, the situation is usually cleared by announcing it.   [Please select]

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Richard had the sufficiency of the cat, John the dependence of a dog; John had the cat's secretiveness, Richard the dog's dash.   [Please select]

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When tamed it shows the same qualities of curiosity and secretiveness which characterise the other birds of its kind.   [Please select]

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Yet, he had the secretiveness of sand; he absorbed, but he revealed nothing.   [Please select]

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Colter had not been so bold nor so rude as Daggs, but he was the same kind of man, perhaps the more dangerous for his secretiveness, his cool, waiting inscrutableness.   [Please select]

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