Crossword-Solution: SECRETIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Secretive | a. | Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “SECRETIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| inclined to keep things secret | 1 answer |
| Tending to hide things | 1 answer |
| Keeping one's thoughts to oneself, say | 1 answer |
| Inclined to concealment | 1 answer |
| Frank's opposite | 1 answer |
| Not open | 7 answers |
| Tight-lipped | 7 answers |
| Close-mouthed | 9 answers |
| backstairs | 12 answers |
| uncommunicative | 20 answers |
| Undercover | 23 answers |
| riddly | 35 answers |
| Mum | 38 answers |
| Uncanny | 47 answers |
| Surreptitious | 53 answers |
| miraculous | 56 answers |
| Exotic | 58 answers |
| Ingenious | 61 answers |
| Cagey | 63 answers |
| Ironic | 69 answers |
| Foreign | 69 answers |
| dishonest | 71 answers |
| reticent | 76 answers |
| Abstruse | 76 answers |
| fickle | 78 answers |
| Shrewd | 80 answers |
| Underhanded | 81 answers |
| Misleading | 81 answers |
| Clandestine | 82 answers |
| Imaginary | 83 answers |
| Enigmatic | 84 answers |
| Undecided | 89 answers |
| Difficult | 92 answers |
| Hard | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SECRETIVE (5)
Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe *themselves* as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life.
She was determined to assert her independence, and if she stooped to fib about the Hepburn picnic it was chiefly from the secretive instinct that made her dread the profanation of her happiness.
Whereupon, once, with a spark of ardent irritation, he told her she was very “secretive.” At this she colored a little, and he said that in default of any larger confidence it would at least be a satisfaction to make her confess to that charge.
Whether the prince was really being thus bled by the absent captain, he could not be certain, but there was something insecure and secretive about Saradine that made the tale by no means incredible.
The man, the Mongolian, small, weazened, leather-colored, secretive--a strange, complex creature, steeped in all the obscure mystery of the East, nervous, ill at ease; and the girl, the Anglo-Saxon, daughter of the Northmen, huge, blond, big-boned, frank, outspoken, simple of composition, open as the day, bareheaded, her great ropes of sandy hair falling over her breast and almost to the top of her knee-boots.
Quotes with SECRETIVE (3)
The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indifference this might suggest, supplied him liberally with personal information; which isn't to say she always told the truth, how many people in love do? or can? but at least she permitted him enough truth to account more or less accurately for all the life she had lived away from him. I…
I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.
Mac Kenzie grinned at Mim. "They love the modern appliances.""Especially the electric floor sweeper," Valor chuckled." Defiance really has a thing for the vacuum cleaner," Mac Kenzie agreed in a secretive whisper." If he ever has kids, he'll probably name the first one Hoover," Havoc snickered.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1999–2022).