not talkative
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I'm not talkative, except in interviews, about what I am doing.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2023
In his first year, “not only was he not talkative and outgoing with the media, in the locker room he was very reserved.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2013
Don't be alarmed if the triplets are not talkative.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The man was from Moscow, by trade a stove-maker, sharp and cunning, keen-sighted, not talkative, fragile in appearance, with little flesh on his bones.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
It is to be questioned if she enjoyed it very much, for Peter was not talkative, and the little he did say was neither brilliant nor witty.
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester