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What does secretive mean?
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secretive

If a person is secretive, they do things without letting others know what it is about. Stop being so secretive! Let me know what my birthday present is.

secretive

(= close) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it

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Simple sentences

Why are you being so secretive?
Tom is secretive.
He's very secretive.
Are you a secretive person?
Why are you so secretive?
Tom was always secretive.
Tom was always very secretive.
Tom is extremely secretive.
Swiss banks are very secretive.
Tom was very secretive.

Movie subtitles

Then you're so secretive.
He had been strangely secretive about his latest painting. and Lord Henry, sensing a mystery. determined to discover what it was that his friend wished to conceal.
Why are you being so secretive about it?
Come on, Ralph, don't be so secretive.
No secretive music performed on a glass harmonica behind the curtain?
And he's so sweet with you, you secretive thing!
For meeting you in secret so we can be secretive.
Something secretive and whispery. and indecent.
And husbands are supposed to be secretive.
He's been acting sly, secretive.
You're both being rather secretive.
My husband was very secretive, he never told me who he saw or where he went.
Now, it's not like my children to be secretive.
We're not being secretive, Father.
Don't be so secretive.
I say it was awfully decent of you to come considering the fact that I was so secretive about it all.
Don't be so secretive all the time!
I couldn't get here right away, everyone was being all secretive.
I ONLY KNOW THAT IT IS HAPPENING. SOMETHING SECRETIVE AND WHISPERY.
You said yourself he's secretive. Yet you tell him everything.
She was rather secretive about it. - Oh?
You know, Harvey is so secretive.
She's a werewolf hunter, and Scott's a werewolf now, so they have to be very secretive with their love.
Manderley, secretive and silent.
I think you're being most secretive.
And you, acting so upset and secretive, as if you felt guilty!
No. Please, don't be so secretive.
Or will you, too, be secretive?
I became secretive but I never lied.
You're too secretive, Natalya.
My husband was very secretive. He never told me who he saw or where he went.

News and current affairs

It refuses to ascribe to Iran's secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist.
China is notoriously secretive; its government mechanics inscrutable.
Though notoriously secretive, the operation is far removed from the Church's more sensitive, doctrinal core.
Moreover, we will need to light the dark corners of international finance, especially tax havens like the Cayman Islands and secretive Swiss banks.
Ukraine's energy needs, and thus the certainty of energy supplies across Europe, will never be secure as long as gas transit is in the hands of secretive companies with unknown owners.
Once ideologies vanished and economic realities dimmed, the unchanging nature of the elite left the population with a bitter feeling that the system was irresponsible, protected, closed, and secretive.
Where Gordon Brown himself really stands on the issue is unclear, because he is a deeply secretive man.
In literary terms, this conspiracy theory closely resembles The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, featuring secretive global elite with great power and wicked aims.
Until the recent opening, Myanmar, which gained independence in 1948, had been ruled by a secretive military junta since 1962.
Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.
Every time North Korea acts provocatively - testing nuclear bombs, launching missiles, touting its secretive uranium enrichment facilities, and killing South Korean soldiers and civilians - China comes under diplomatic fire.
But there may be a lesson from a country whose wartime rulers, quarrelling among themselves, inflicted unimaginable harm on their people and to the world with their mendacious, secretive, and paranoid style.
The public Madrid talks failed to bring about any breakthroughs, whereas the much more secretive Oslo channel brought about the PLO-Israel agreement.

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