taciturn

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Many of the AI country tunes tap into the genre's archetype of the lone cowboy: a rugged, taciturn, plain-spoken man who, above all, refuses to apologize for simply existing.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

She is as warm and outgoing as he is taciturn and undemonstrative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Seok “Serk” Kang, a taciturn professor at a Michigan university, accepts a year’s appointment at a college in a Japanese town close to Osaka in 1978.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

In a mountainous village of post-war Italy, a taciturn Sicilian soldier hides out after deserting the army.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024

Pedro Segundo was waiting for them at the station with the car, and Blanca was surprised to hear him whistling all the way to Tres Marias, because he had such a taciturn reputation.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende