secretiveness

Example Sentences

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These include "unusual secretiveness, particularly around devices, mobile phones, social media accounts".

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

It took some of the tension of uncertainty and trying to bridge between privacy and secretiveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

Mennecier, the curator, and Delpuech, the former Museum of Mankind director, both said the institution’s secretiveness and the authorities’ stonewalling could have repercussions, as calls for a reckoning with the past mount.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

North Korea’s secretiveness makes it unlikely outsiders can confirm the true scale of the outbreak.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2022

There was a lot of whispering and telegraphing and general secretiveness, the details of which even my sensitive ears could not take in.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan