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Reticent
adjective
Keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
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The firms that make this most basic type of glue, whose recipe has hardly changed in hundreds of years, are reticent.
But here is the thing: when I hear west European trade union leaders, for example, demanding action to keep jobs in their country so they do not go to China, I am instinctively reticent.
The reticent producer cut his teeth running similarly toned, small, dark basement events in Bristol, so he'll be right at home with City Bass's back-to-basics ethos, and his focused, skilful mixing of rarely heard 90s NY house'n'garage with prime UK modernism will put everyone in the right headspace to get down.
This does not come out because normally we are reticent; we are not allowed to speak; we have various kinds of rules and regulations that prevent us from speaking about various topics.
The biography sensitively uncovers the facts of an unusual life that Fitzgerald was reticent about and reveals the voluminous research she undertook, then used economically in novels that appear simple on the surface but are complex masterpieces.
More seriously, I have female friends who are reticent about relationships in case the men they are sleeping with are not who they say they are.
"He seemed reticent, I left with a bitter taste," she said.
"I think maybe we are a bit too reticent about telling them that maybe they should go on a diet.
We have no qualms in telling people who are smokers that they ought to stop smoking, but we are reticent abut telling people to go on a diet.
On "shy kippers", a phenomenon repeatedly alluded to by Farage during the campaign, Evans said it was crucial to find out why those people were reticent in showing their support for the party.
Some forms of mobile phone contactless payment will also be accepted, although TfL has been more reticent to promote the technology at launch.
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