tight-lipped

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Recent Examples of tight-lipped Daboll has been notoriously tight-lipped in news conferences during his four-year tenure. Dan Duggan, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 Franklin remained so tight-lipped that some wrote him off as a British spy. Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025 The groom isn’t the only one who’s remained tight-lipped about wedding plans. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2025 Nowadays, the entrepreneur and model is pretty tight-lipped about her love life, and hasn’t been linked with anyone since her breakup with Idris in November 2023 after a year of dating. Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tight-lipped
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tight-lipped
Adjective
  • Later, when Doyle comes into some mysterious bags of cash, and heads toward the mainland with a bottle of booze, a boat, and one last chance to go out in a blaze of self-immolation, Farrell manages to mix dread and adrenaline into every silent expression.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • James Cook was kept relatively silent in this game with 87 yards on 17 carries.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Serve with reserved cranberry mixture, if desired.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Add the reserved chicken and remaining ½ cup broth.
    Bethany Thayer, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And, in one of the dumbest and most obviously racist postr taken by a presidential candidate, at some point Republicans became fixated on the idea that Haitian migrants were stealing pets for food in the Midwest.
    Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • After Johnson gave his answer to that resolutely dumb question, several other luminaries took a whack at the zeitgeist piñata.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In DaCosta’s hands, Ibsen’s emotionally extreme but tonally restrained play becomes a spectacular, flamboyant melodrama, with physical action as intense as the characters’ inner worlds.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That would include gun-violence restraining orders and domestic violence protective orders, which are among several kinds of orders that compel a restrained person to surrender firearms.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Tight-lipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tight-lipped. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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