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
The surgeons had to fracture the top vertebra with a Hall air-driven drill, and then the seclusive clivus was exposed at last.
From Time Magazine Archive
They incline to be irritable, neurotic, seclusive, but are lonely less frequently than divorced men.
From Time Magazine Archive
During his sojourn in the Government Hospital for the Insane, he was always very suspicious and seclusive, keeping to his room practically all the time and aloof from the other patients in the ward.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
