seclusive

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

From Time

It all goes back to the seclusive pathos Yorke and Godrich injected alone together over those two years on their laptops.

From Time

And this year, if the Oscars go first, one could claim that the Golden Globes — voted on by a small, seclusive set of voters — are more irrelevant than ever.

From Time

The more conservative idea was that man should be meditative and seclusive, that he should withdraw himself altogether from the pleasures of this world and work out his salvation with his eye "single to the honor and glory of God."

From Project Gutenberg

This great wall of China may be considered as a characteristic, and as it were a symbol of the seclusive spirit and aversion to every thing foreign in person, manners and modes of thinking which distinguish the Chinese state.

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