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
An intelligent college boy of 20 read Dale Carnegie's book How to Win Friends and Influence People, and suddenly turned from a shy, introspective, seclusive, sensitive individual to an excited, superficially friendly, overly confident egoist.
From Time Magazine Archive
When her escort demands a quiet table for two, her comment is, "You know, seclusive."
From Time Magazine Archive
The effect of too affectionate a home training, too assertive parenthood, is to dwarf the individuality of the child and make him a sort of parasite, out of contact with his contemporaries, seclusive and odd.
From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham
