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"ref": "1915 August–September, John Buchan, chapter 3, in The Thirty-Nine Steps, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published October 1915, →OCLC:",
"text": "The milkman had been released, I read, and the true criminal, about whose identity the police were reticent, was believed to have got away from London by one of the northern lines.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922, H. P. Lovecraft, The Music of Erich Zann:",
"text": "The inhabitants of that street impressed me peculiarly; At first I thought it was because they were all silent and reticent; but later decided it was because they were all very old.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Rafael Sabatini, “chapter XXV”, in Captain Blood: His Odyssy:",
"text": "But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained."
],
"links": [
[
"thought",
"thought"
],
[
"opinion",
"opinion"
],
[
"oneself",
"oneself"
],
[
"reserved",
"reserved"
],
[
"restrained",
"restrained"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English proscribed terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Helene J. Sinnreich, “The Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust”, in Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, page 108:",
"text": "While many uncomfortable components of the Holocaust have been analyzed in minute detail, the rape of Jewish women during this era persists as a subject that scholars and victims alike are reticent to explore.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, C. Dallett Hemphill, “chapter 3”, in Siblings: Brothers and Sisters in American History:",
"text": "One letter from Deborah presents an especially fascinating contrast with Jane's letters to her brother. Whereas Jane was keen on discussing politics, Deborah was reticent to do so.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Michael Naas, edited by Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor, A Companion to Derrida, page 236:",
"text": "But I would now like to argue that there was for Derrida a privileged site in Ancient Philosophy for this question, one to which Derrida would repeatedly return in his writing and thinking – Socrates’ denigration or denunciation of writing, his attempt in the Phaedrus to exclude writing from thinking and philosophy proper. As I suggested at the outset, this claim regarding Derrida’s relation to the Greeks is one that Derrida himself would have been reticent to accept.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Ray Bull, Investigative Interviewing, page 3:",
"text": "The police may be reticent to charge the alleged offender, prosecutors reticent to continue with the prosecution, and juries reticent to convict.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive)."
],
"links": [
[
"Hesitant",
"hesitant"
],
[
"wanting",
"wanting"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"reluctant",
"reluctant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive)."
],
"tags": [
"proscribed"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈɹɛtɪsənt/"
},
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"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "sense 1",
"word": "reserved"
},
{
"word": "restrained"
},
{
"english": "See also Thesaurus:taciturn",
"word": "tight-lipped"
},
{
"sense": "sense 2",
"word": "reluctant"
},
{
"word": "unwilling"
},
{
"word": "disinclined"
},
{
"word": "loath"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sdǎržan",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "сдържан"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rezereviran",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "резеревиран"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "reticent"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chénmò",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "沉默"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "tilbageholdende"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "terughoudend"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "vaitelias"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "vähäpuheinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "réticent"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "hésitant"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "reticente"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "still"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "verschwiegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "zurückhaltend"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "visszafogott"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "hallgatag"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "reticente"
},
{
"alt": "かもく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kamoku",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "寡黙"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "reserved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "reticentia"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vózdržan",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "во́здржан"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "whakakumu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "ngākau tōngā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "hūnguengue"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "tikumu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "memeke"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "stillfaren"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "tilbakeholden"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "reticent"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "blank"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "małomówny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "dyskretny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "reticente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sdéržannyj",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "сде́ржанный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrýtnyj",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "скры́тный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "šutljiv"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "ćutljiv"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "povučen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "reticente"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "tillbakadragen"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "sluten"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "förtegen"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reserved",
"word": "tystlåten"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neobštitelen",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "необщителен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neohoten",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "неохотен"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "zögerlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "zurückhaltend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "unwillig"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kólebliv",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "ко́леблив"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "tilbakeholden"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "reservert"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hesitant, reluctant",
"word": "uvillig"
}
],
"word": "reticent"
}
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