Reticent Reticently Reticence - Reticent Meaning - Reticence Examples - C2 English Vocabulary

The expert was asked to disclose all of the company's secret information, but he remained reticent.
He did not want to spill the beans.

Introverts are inherently reticent individuals.

The boy asked about the girl's feelings, but the girl chose to be reticent

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I was reticent to do my sociology assignments last year because they had too long texts.

I reticently approved the release of that guy because there wasn't enough evidence that he had committed the crime.

My mum's reticence to not let me go to my friend's house last month is easy to understand considering the fact that we are in a pandemic.

The Old Bill promised to discharge a suspect if he would shop his accomplices, but the man was reticent about giving testimonies.

With a reticent partner is easy to keep everything schtum. That's why they say that silence is golden.

reluctant: unwilling to act
reticent: unwilling to speak

I was very reticent about talking my breakup.

He answered the questions reticently.

He is reticent about his crime in past.

Some kids are reticent to stranger...

Everyone thought she was extremely reticent, but that wasn't true.

Amazing 😉 👍

She was reticent about her life during the war years or the destiny of her Jewish-Russian maternal and Jewish-Polish paternal families. She didn’t accept their submission and reluctance to act against a monstrous power. Thanks 😊

My children are very reticent about what is happening between their mom and i.

Sir, thanks for adding up a new word into my limited vocab.

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The government can be reticent or ignorant.

Witnesses to crimes committed in certain inner city neighbourhoods are always reticent when the police investigators arrive.

The rules on the street when the police ask you a question , you have to be reticent.

I reacted reticently to the policeman's questions because I knew he wanted me to naively admit to something that he could not prove.

She was reticent about her success as she was secretive .

I like to be reticent when it comes to finding flawes on other people on opposed to exposing them in front of others.

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He never likes to be reticent, so he minces no words in stating his opinions on global issues that turned some critics ill-disposed towards him.

People in the Underground Railroad were reticent with strangers because they didn't know who they could trust.

I still love to use this word informally 😊

mom: WHO ATE THE FOOD AND HAS LEFT THE TABLE DIRTY AND UNCLEAN??

Storyteller: And then all the siblings were TIGHT-LIPPED and became RETICENT...

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my dear teacher if I say the texture of the poem is dense. the texture inhere means the imagery and the language used in the poem right?

Beautiful!

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Reserved, shy,taciturn. The support for narc recovery uses very good language; therefore , I learn by mere listening . Good comparison between reluctant / reticent.

Speechless = reticent.
- I was utterly reticent speechless when i found my boss watching me while working.

Found this video after searching "how to be more reticent" - I gotta stop oversharing!

Thanks for helping sir.

Reticent:
This is one of my favorite words to use.
It took me forever to figure out how to spell it…LOL…
You gave me good information, thank you.

Mum🤪....no, no, not the breadcrumbs, mum... Mum🤪... I kept mum about the whole affair... That mum... 🤪

Excellently explained, thank you. Many native speakers indeed use this word incorrectly

He was very reticent about his resignation from work, up until we heard the news from our boss on his very last day in the office. Thank you sir

Nice one 👍 👌 👏 - uncommunicative, reserved, hesitant to disclose certain details about something, unwilling to talk openly- -cartes sur table-about something? ■ Does the word have anything to do with "reticule" a woman's purse - (18th century ?? )Judging from the description from some of the novels I used to read at 14 / 15 ? - very feminine and romantic, which goes with the word " lingerie", parvenue, ,ingenue,, seigneur,,order of the garter blunderbuss, and things like that ? ,

I have known about the blessings from God who was the authorized one to perform how the world would benifit such infinite wealth but maybe I have no right to spread this complected thing that's why myself from my concerned thought reticent to speak out the details about it.

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My colleague accused me of being reticent for not being willing to share information about my family issues.