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Meanings of secretiveness in inglês

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Characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)

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      The trait of keeping things secret.

            Usage of secretiveness in inglês
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            Why is the Department a byword among journalists for secretiveness and unhelpfulness?
            The Irish Times
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            For there is no streak of mean secretiveness in Green Valley folks.
            Green Valley
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            Critics say any secretiveness only fuels more conspiracy theories and partisan rhetoric.
            Reuters
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            In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.
            A short history of nearly everything
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            Oh, that accursed secretiveness in women, which makes them always belie themselves!
            Godolphin, Volume 5.
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            They plant distrust and secretiveness, and they produce in us after their kind.
            Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
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            And in his astonishment he wondered at the secretiveness of London.
            The Roll-Call
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            Of course I couldn't foresee all the secretiveness that would ensue.
            Amberville
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            Peregrine lately told me an instance of the extraordinary secretiveness of the labourer.
            A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...
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            Now in the period of pregnancy the artist's mood is one of secretiveness.
            Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
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            Yet, he had the secretiveness of sand; he absorbed, but he revealed nothing.
            The Puppet Crown
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            Jealousy and secretiveness are much rarer among them than in Europe.
            Your United States: Impressions of a first visit
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            Another source of comparatively harmless lying is the instinct for secretiveness.
            Your Child: Today and Tomorrow / Some Problems for Parents Conce...
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            Is it because there's a combination of show business and secretiveness?
            The new yorker
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            Develop secretiveness and selfishness, and they become cunning and profligacy, desperation and crime.
            The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English / or,...
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            We have many objections to the Overlords-but above all we detest their secretiveness.
            Childhood's End
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            Secretiveness through the time
            Secretiveness across language varieties
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