seclusive

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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

In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician.

From Time Magazine Archive

This feeling of inferiority may arise from purely accidental matters, such as appearance, deformity, tone of voice, etc., and the individual may either hide, become seclusive or else brazen it out, so to speak.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham