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tight-lipped

synonyms for tight-lipped

QUIZ

Thingamabob or Thingummy: Can You Distinguish Between the US And UK Terms In This Quiz?

"It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.

His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

It is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.

Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.

This difficulty of making a tight and safe boiler, that puzzled Watt, was moonshine to Trevithick.

I asked sharply, and MacRae flung the same query over one shoulder as he fumbled at the tight-drawn latigo-knot.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

She carried a broken-lipped jug, and was on her way to the shop which was at least the second cause of all her woes.

I haven't heard you call anybody 'Mis',' for Mrs., in ever so long, and most of the time you keep tight hold of your g's.

She sat on the sofa, clad in an ample white peignoir, holding a handkerchief tight in her hand with a nervous clutch.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985