incommunicative
adjective
not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
incommunicativeness
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a word derived from
incommunicative.
Example Sentences
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I pitied him from the bottom of my heart, but could not, for that reason, quite forgive his incommunicativeness in the matter of the Last Supper.
From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by Joseph Lewis French
He had a close, compact mouth, a cautious mouth, and the lips were now compressed with an expression of waiting incommunicativeness.
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
I continue to hear great complaints of Peel—of his coldness, incommunicativeness, and deficiency in all the qualities requisite for a leader, particularly at such a time.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve
Hardly a word or look had passed between him and Maggie in all the three weeks; but his usual incommunicativeness at home prevented this from being noticeable to their parents.
From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Back and forth under the big tulip-tree she walked in the crisp October air, commanding her face to a pale incommunicativeness, but clinching and unclinching her hands.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
