taciturnity
Example Sentences
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Their matter-of-factness and taciturnity were traits he tried to emulate.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023
Once he is back on the bench, will Justice Thomas revert to his usual taciturnity?
From New York Times • May 3, 2021
What set him apart, aside from his keen intellect, taciturnity and gifts as a writer, was his ferocious loyalty.
From Fox News • Dec. 10, 2018
He has a lifelong habit of collecting garrulous friends and yet a tendency to induce some measure of taciturnity in all but the most voluble of them.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016
He looked at me with the contained amusement that is considered taciturnity by non-Yankees.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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