Reticent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETICENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• tending to be silent
• uncommunicative, reserved
• Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
• temperamentally disinclined to talk
• cool and formal in manner
• reluctant to draw attention to yourself
• not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

Words related to RETICENT

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Words that contain RETICENT

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How to use RETICENT in a sentence

• A mind so capacious and so reticent is always an enigma to near observers.
• At times the thought crosses my mind that this priestess of Diana is more at ease and less reticent when alone with her husband.
• She had told him she was not now at Marlott, but had been curiously reticent as to her actual address, and the only course was to go to Marlott and inquire for it.
• I forget now what chance comment or criticism of mine moved so reticent a man to confide in me.
• The trees are high and vaulted there, but the forest is very reticent.
• Billy had always been rather reticent about his people.
• Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was more reticent and politic, though no less positive and significant in his brief expressions.
• His brother, in a biography, completely frank up to this point, now grows reticent, except to release the wife of all blame.
• As she grew older, she became very reticent of her past, and, if she remembered it at all, she held her tongue, like Peter.
• But he was most reticent about himself, although he acknowledged that he was acquainted with Canada, and had lived here for some time.
• It was a very formal, extremely tall and reticent Clayton Spencer who greeted Audrey that night.
• Pride still made her eyes reticent and cold, but the old outrageous arrogance was gone.
• Next morning he was mysteriously reticent about the disappearance of the hide.
• Reticent he seemed, but his answer to an inquiry was direct, and his quiet blue-eyes never shifted from the eyes of the man who addressed him.
• Most of them were very reticent, but I finally found out, by judicious pumping of a burly fellow from Pittsburgh, that they were Fenians on their way to Canada.
• Wronged persons might be ever so communicative, but I surmised that persons in the wrong were reticent.
• He was by no means a reticent man, he liked sympathy, and soon got into the habit of confiding in me for want of a better friend.
• A man so timorous and so reticent as your uncle would allow no one to do this but himself.
• So did Tony Lattimer, and he was a great deal less reticent about saying so.
• He could obtain an interview with the most reticent politician.
• Jordan, in accusing me, has not been at all reticent.
• He is described as being a surly, low type, reticent and vindictive, of vicious characteristics and mentally defective.
• He never spoke to Kieff unless circumstances compelled him, and with Sylvia herself he was so reticent as to be almost forbidding.
• Socially he was good-natured and playful, never aggressive, too modest to be a leader, rather reticent.
• Sailors generally are singularly reticent about their adventures.
• He was reticent on the subject of his compositions, but was not averse to talking of his troubles.
• THE QUIET OR RETICENT BOY The quiet or reticent fellow is like the mighty sweeping river.

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