reticent
She had overcome her usual reticence and talked about their married life.
His reticence is understandable.
Despite his initial reticence, he began teaching the children.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not saying much
a few well-chosen wordsidiom
abruptly
abruptness
boo
briefly
cat
concisely
conciseness
crisp
gnomic
incommunicative
laconic
laconically
monosyllabic
monosyllabically
not say booidiom
pithily
quietness
reticent
taciturn

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Shy and modest

Examples of reticence

reticence
Opening up the policy process to public, parties and politicians should be done with due reticence.
Its reticence coincided with the introduction of a government bill to relieve agricultural distress through the cultivation of urban fringe wastelands.
Leaders' explanations of such reticence were compared with student perceptions in a later phase of the study.
Perhaps he is simply saving this material for the final volume, but perhaps, too, the reticence is revealing.
How then does it cope with characters who are defined by reticence and inscrutability?
Reasons for reticence and strategic disinformation between capitalists probably varied quite widely.
Repression weakened the reticence of these unions, and strengthened the incentive which central union leaders had to launch electoral organizations.
Medieval theological reticence or comment are explicable in terms of the broader intellectual context, rather than by changed opinion.
Reticence on the whole subject was the common standard.
My reticence to do so also relates to my ignorance of the cultures discussed and archival data presented.
The political reticence to finance reparations for those designated to be ' victims ' is a clear example of this.
This reticence concerns only the spectacular practice attending experiments.
While a certain delicacy, reticence, and preciosity of diction do distinguish many poems, much of it is apprentice work and should be valued as such.
Their reticence is understandable from a political viewpoint: the interventions advocated by environmental groups are typically harmful to the economic interests of powerful industry groups.
Issues such as dominance, reticence, sharing and achievement all need to be discussed with pupils and techniques for dealing with them practised.
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