Crossword-Solution: RECLUSIVE 9 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Reclusive a. Affording retirement from society.

We have 32 clues for the answer “RECLUSIVE”

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Unlikely to be out and about 1 answer
Eremitic 2 answers
uncommunicative 20 answers
ascetic 45 answers
sus 50 answers
undemonstrative 51 answers
cloistered 51 answers
Retiring 51 answers
distrusting 53 answers
Sheep-ish? 54 answers
retreated 54 answers
Diffident 55 answers
timorous 56 answers
Distrustful 58 answers
coy 60 answers
Bashful 61 answers
inhibited 61 answers
prudish 61 answers
unobtrusive 62 answers
incommunicable 62 answers
meek 62 answers
Timid 62 answers
Peaceable 62 answers
Demure 64 answers
constrained 67 answers
Modest 69 answers
Shy 72 answers
Subdued 75 answers
reticent 76 answers
Unassuming 78 answers
Reserved 94 answers
Moderate 107 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECLUSIVE (5)

But if all aim but this be levell’d false, The supposition of the lady’s death Will quench the wonder of her infamy: And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,— As best befits her wounded reputation,— In some reclusive and religious life, Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, and injuries.
Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare 1998
There was something fine in the absolutely fatal nature of the result, and I perceived that nowhere else in our life, which is apt to be reclusive in its exclusiveness, is the prime motive at work in it so dramatically apparent.
Short Stories and Essays William Dean Howells 2004
They chose to become lifetime members of the reclusive Captain's colony and to abide by its (overly rational) rules.
Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema Sam Vaknin 2005
Then, too, the contradictoriness of his social attitude, his desire to make her a rich drone, his shame at his mother, his reclusive shyness--all the weaknesses of the man--came to obscure her sense of his literary idealism, if not, indeed, to reveal it as a mere coquetry with fine ideas and coarse clothes.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 2005
Some tended to be so over-reclusive that they almost missed recognition; others were hail-fellow-well-met in any company.
The Armed Forces Officer U. S. Department of Defense 2008

Quotes with RECLUSIVE (3)

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.
Iain Reid One Bird's Choice
Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.
Marianne Moore Complete Poems
The Elven people believe that preservation of the land and all that lives and grows upon it, plant and animal alike, is a moral responsibility. They have always held this belief foremost in their conduct as creatures of the earth. In the old world, they devoted the whole of their lives to caring for the woodlands and forests in which they lived, cultivating its various forms of vegetation, sheltering the animals that it harbored. Of course, they had little else to concern the…
Terry Brooks The Elfstones of Shannara
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