reticence in English

noun

[ret·i·cence || 'retɪsəns]

tendency to remain silent, tendency to keep quiet; quality of having self-restraint, quality of being reserved

Use "reticence" in a sentence

1. What's your reticence?

2. His reticence will continue to baffle his biographer .

3. His reticence are more revealing than his speech.

4. His reticence is more revealing than his speech.

5. Pearl didn't mind his reticence; in fact she liked it.

6. Too long had he cultivated reticence, Aloofness, and moroseness

7. His reticence about his past made them very suspicious.

8. Less information and reticence are characteristic of prizewinners this year.

9. There is a quite natural reticence to reveal it to outsiders.

10. On occasion even the latter have lost their usual reticence and blundered.

11. In contrast walking slowly into a room may indicate reticence or apprehension.

12. Minded by Corpulent nymphets with wings and frowns, in reticence t

13. Even his softly spoken voice suggests a reticence toward off-stage communication.

14. This is a family peculiarity-a reticence in expressing sentiment or deep feeling.

15. He breaks out of his normal reticence and tells me the whole story.

16. That night she had overcome her natural reticence and talked about their married life.

17. • Minded by Corpulent nymphets with wings and frowns, in reticence they guard their deeply embedded doubts.

18. Synonyms for Bashfulness include constraint, embarrassment, hesitation, nervousness, coyness, diffidence, modesty, reserve, reticence and self-consciousness

19. Antonyms for Amour propre include humbleness, humility, modesty, meekness, reserve, shyness, diffidence, reticence, unpretentiousness and bashfulness

20. This produces some lively interest-and some illuminating questions once the children overcome their inevitable reticence.

21. Her reticence was in sharp contrast to the glamour and star status of her predecessors.

22. Minded by corpulent nymphets with wings and frowns, in reticence they guard their deeply embedded doubts.

23. Antonyms for Complacence include humbleness, humility, modesty, meekness, reserve, shyness, diffidence, reticence, unpretentiousness and bashfulness

24. But this comradeship turned to a strange reticence during the last few days of the journey.

25. The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides.

26. In the past, non - OPEC firms would have more than compensated for the cartel's reticence to invest.

27. 12 But this comradeship turned to a strange reticence during the last few days of the journey.

28. He realised that Marion's reticence was to protect the secret of her love affair with Ronald Travis.

29. The internal affairs of a member state are no business of the union, hence the reticence in Brussels.

30. Wang Ho-fu spoke with his usual bantering smile, which contrasted strongly with Sun Chi-jen's reticence and taciturnity.

31. The mystery surrounding the identity of property owners can be partly explained by a typical Victorian reticence concerning financial matters.

32. Forgive me for my reticence but I know that many of the present-day inhabitants would not appreciate the need of it.

33. I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence.

34. Maxwell's biographer and friend, Lewis Campbell, adopted an uncharacteristic reticence on the subject of Katherine, though describing their married life as "one of unexampled devotion".

35. For Black History Month, the lawyers discuss the effects of Anglicising their names and their reticence to get help through schemes and organisations for Black people.

36. Bashfulness noun shyness, reserve, embarrassment, constraint, hesitation, modesty, nervousness, lack of confidence, reticence, self-consciousness, timidity, diffidence, coyness, timorousness, mousiness, sheepishness, timidness Suddenly overcome with Bashfulness, he lowered his voice.

37. Some reckon its failure to unearth masses of new information is down to a mix of mendacious reticence on the part of key witnesses and the pusillanimity of their inquisitors.

38. N Aposiopesis In rhetoric, sudden reticence; the suppression by a speaker or writer of something which he seemed to be about to say; the sudden termination of a discourse before it is really finished

39. During his stay in Japan, his adroitness, insinuating manners and medical skill overcame the habitual jealousy and reticence of the natives, and enabled him to elicit much valuable information. In November 1692 he left Japan for Java and Europe, and in October 1693 he landed at Amsterdam .

40. The Dowager, with a magnificent disregard for the coachman and the footman, perched on the box-seat in front of her, knew no such reticence, and discoursed with great freedom on the birth of an heir to the barony, Animadverting with embarrassing candour, and all the contempt of a matriarch who had brought half-a-dozen children into the world

41. And yet, what other course had I to take with a man whom no denial, no scorn could Abash?: Nor did her presence in the least Abash the boys, for they saw no impropriety in the act.: Her reticence in that respect, however, did not in the least Abash Jesse.: Divers flocks of clouds, camp-followers of the storm, could not Abash her.: As I said before, those gentlemen-rascals are hard to Abash.