Examples of secretive

• Some of the more highly-placed declarants seemed positively secretive.

• Revealing patronage systems through reliable and complete data is not possible, since such systems are secretive and may incite ethnic conflict.

• Both studied cervids are wary, secretive and solitary animals.

• Unlike its partial, secretive and often arbitrary old regime counterpart, revolutionary law was both systematic, universal and transparent.

• Because policy networks have closed and secretive deliberations, international actors cannot make alliances with social actors who agreed with them more than government officials do.

• He describes a contentious and secretive process of the bottom+up (or middle+up) drafting of orders that eventually reach the emperor for approval.

• Conceivably, the use of contraceptives under such conditions may be secretive and the chances are high that the instructions may not be followed faithfully.

• The consensus in the maltreatment field is one of victim underreporting, rather than overreporting, given the stigmatic and secretive nature of maltreatment.