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taciturn
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Definition:habitually quiet and reserved, reluctant to be an interlocutor
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Seeing her so taciturn, Charles imagined her much affected, and forced himself to say nothing,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Neri had always been a taciturn man, but he found himself opening up to Michael Corleone.
Mario Puzo. The Godfather, p.445 (1969)
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room,
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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there had long existed a taciturn understanding between them that both were weighed down by work, and always in a hurry.
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They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Harriet had been taciturn that day, which was unusual, and mostly she just followed the others.
Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Reg Keeland translation), p.328 (2009)
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I had tried early on to assist with the cooking, but my help had been more or less politely rejected by the taciturn clansman whose job it apparently was.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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