tight-lipped
adjective
1
: having the lips closed tight (as in determination)
2
: reluctant to speak : taciturn
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Examples of tight-lipped in a Sentence
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However, Senate leaders has been tight-lipped about their precise plans.
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Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024
Both have been tight-lipped about what, if anything, is going on between them.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
For Del Rey's Coachella looks herself, Ortega was tight-lipped ahead of her performance.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
Other than that, the people who know the beam best are tight-lipped on the subject.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
Costner shared footage from both parts which featured wagon trains, Union troops, feuding ranchers, gunfights, tight-lipped lawmen, steely frontier women and sweeping vistas.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
Over the years, Lopez has stayed pretty tight-lipped about her relationship with the Bad Boy Records founder and that harrowing night in December 1999.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
The production team is being tight-lipped about the music and has not released any of the original recordings from 1970.
—Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
Yet a reasonable case can be made that two essential manners in American prose—the laconic, tight-lipped style (Hemingway began as a newspaperman and sportswriter, too) and the loquacious high irony that A. J. Liebling passed on to Tom Wolfe—began in the baseball stories of the New York papers.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024
Both have been tight-lipped about what, if anything, is going on between them.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
For Del Rey's Coachella looks herself, Ortega was tight-lipped ahead of her performance.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
Other than that, the people who know the beam best are tight-lipped on the subject.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
Costner shared footage from both parts which featured wagon trains, Union troops, feuding ranchers, gunfights, tight-lipped lawmen, steely frontier women and sweeping vistas.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
Over the years, Lopez has stayed pretty tight-lipped about her relationship with the Bad Boy Records founder and that harrowing night in December 1999.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
The production team is being tight-lipped about the music and has not released any of the original recordings from 1970.
—Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
Yet a reasonable case can be made that two essential manners in American prose—the laconic, tight-lipped style (Hemingway began as a newspaperman and sportswriter, too) and the loquacious high irony that A. J. Liebling passed on to Tom Wolfe—began in the baseball stories of the New York papers.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Tight-lipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tight-lipped. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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