closemouthed
Example Sentences
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The Nationals named Mr. Lerner’s son, Mark, managing principal owner in 2018, but the elder Mr. Lerner remained the unquestioned, if closemouthed, patriarch in control of the team’s purse strings.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023
Perhaps that seems right for a first-person narrative, but Stamm remains just as closemouthed across all his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
ICE, famously closemouthed, has offered no details of what investigation it will do.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
The effect is offset by Rudolph’s cautious, closemouthed smile, which rests on her face as easily as powder on a puff.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
The closemouthed Scottish scientist never mentioned the incident.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
