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It is typically used to describe a person who is reserved or uncommunicative in speech. Example: "Despite his taciturn nature, he had a wealth of knowledge that he shared when prompted." Alternatives include "reserved" or "reticent."
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Taciturn
adjective
Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
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There is some gentle ribbing about her being the farmers' pin-up girl, but even the more taciturn rural types seem somewhat in awe of her, crossing the street to shake her hand and praising her authoritative handling of the foot and mouth crisis, imposing restrictions on local ports, despite contrary advice from London.
The letters have been published amid growing signs that Charles is planning to rule in a far more outspoken way than the taciturn Queen.
Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
Jones is due to take Arthur Lowe's role as the pompous and diminutive Captain Mainwaring, with Nighy as the dry and taciturn Sergeant Wilson.
A cheerfully taciturn man with a penchant for basset hounds, Oshii doesn't like to talk about the Matrix and any similarities to his film.
He bemoaned Germans' lack of curiosity about his past, while at the same time remaining taciturn about it.Your papers, pleaseHe once claimed to be "half German, half Polish and wholly Jewish", only to say later that none of that was true.
Transparency did at least take a small step forwards at Wells Fargo, America's fourth-biggest bank by assets and its most taciturn.
The taciturn Texan, known as "Big Ed", seems to want to repeat his success by rehabilitating another fallen colossus of American industry.
Coleridge was a brilliant and prodigious talker, Wordsworth inclined towards the taciturn.
Ice races were a deep-rooted tradition by the early 19th century, especially in the northern province of Friesland, where the fields and canals are longest, and the local farmers see taciturn stubbornness as a virtue.
WALK into the inn in the Hokkaido village of Akanko, and everything from the welcoming cry of "irasshaimase" to the taciturn old man grilling chicken on the fire seems quintessentially Japanese.
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