secretiveness

How To Use secretiveness In A Sentence

• The secretiveness and deceptiveness of the patients made the diagnosis difficult for those who were unaware of this tendency.
• For instance, Matt argues thatThe Democratic Party is awash in secretiveness, and while there have been Kerry emails which explain a bit of polling, one is mostly kept in the dark as to the strategic direction of the campaign. Sometimes the first thought...
• worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides
• Naturally talkative, Theroux discovered the candour as well as the secretiveness of the island's people.
• Naturally talkative, Theroux discovered the candour as well as the secretiveness of the island's people.
• Both had much cause to be grateful for the secretiveness of government in Britain.
• She found the man a baffling and fascinating combination of qualities, all petty selfishness and colossal egotisms one minute, abounding in endless charms and graces and small endearing chivalries the next; outrageously outspoken at times, at other times, reticent to the point of secretiveness; now reaching the most extravagant pitch of high spirits, and then, almost without warning, submerged in moods of Stygian gloom from which nothing could rouse him. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
• The secretiveness of the regime and the often seemingly wilful disinformation provided by its opponents makes matters worse.
• She saw now that he did not mean to acknowledge his failing, and knowing the secretiveness of the drug-taker she decided that he was deluded enough to think he could still deceive her. The Fruit of the Tree
• Apart from anything else, this secretiveness adds up to the cardinal sin of security by obscurity.