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recluse

noun as in person who does not want social contact

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Born in Virginia, D'Angelo was something of a recluse and only periodically surfaced to release music, most of which was received favorably by fans and critics.

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He’s a bit of a recluse, but he plays by the rules and demands the same from Fito.

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She spent her teenage years looking after her five siblings and working in a chip shop at the weekends while her mother became a recluse.

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“He is a recluse who cut off contact with our family and now lives in squalor,” she writes.

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We Americans love our literary losers, and who better to give us the latest version of a recluse with a heart of gold than Walter?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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