seclusive

Example Sentences

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Fraternities—and sororities, for that matter—are seclusive by nature.

From Time • Sep. 24, 2014

He was a friend of Bernard B. Kerik, the former police commissioner who pleaded guilty to charges including tax fraud, and he made his political bones working in the seclusive borough president’s office.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2010

News came last week that the Mexican sociologist Professor Javier Uranga has discovered such a system in operation among the seclusive Yalalteca Indians in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

When her escort demands a quiet table for two, her comment is, "You know, seclusive."

From Time Magazine Archive

This feeling of inferiority may arise from purely accidental matters, such as appearance, deformity, tone of voice, etc., and the individual may either hide, become seclusive or else brazen it out, so to speak.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham