Vocabulary Word
Word: taciturn
Definition: habitually silent; talking little
Definition: habitually silent; talking little
Sentences Containing 'taciturn'
``That there Roger Cly, master,''said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron bound visage.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.''
He accustomed himself to speaking to the new jailer, although the latter was, if possible, more taciturn than the old one; but still, to speak to a man, even though mute, was something.
He was taciturn, soft-footed, very quiet in his manner, deferential, observant, always at hand when wanted, and never near when not wanted; but his great claim to consideration was his respectability.
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