0 People who are secretive hide their feelings, thoughts, intentions, and actions from other people:
He's being very secretive about his new girlfriend.
1 not wanting others to know, or done privately so that others do not know:
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.
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