tight-lipped
adjective
1
: having the lips closed tight (as in determination)
2
: reluctant to speak : taciturn
Synonyms
Examples of tight-lipped in a Sentence
the cabinet official is usually tight-lipped about her private life
Recent Examples on the Web
The authorities have been tight-lipped, declining even to specify how many people participated in the attack.
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Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024
From fraught relationships with his parents (Carmichael’s devout Christian mother struggles to accept her gay son, while his dad remains tight-lipped about his decades of infidelity) to his seemingly compulsive cheating on a boyfriend, the series dives deep into its subject’s psychology.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 30 May 2024
Over the years, Lopez has stayed pretty tight-lipped about her relationship with the Bad Boy Records founder and that harrowing night.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
Both the Biden and Ruto administrations have been tight-lipped about how many of the 1,000 Kenyans police officers would be deployed in the initial phase.
—Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, is characteristically tight-lipped on its progress and challenges and declined to provide further comment on progress beyond NASA’s life-support press statement.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2024
Of course, nobody had a good handle on what the famously tight-lipped Orioles might do.
—C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
Those lawmakers had done their own freelance investigative work to reach that conclusion because the State Department has been outrageously tight-lipped about the situation.
—The Editors, National Review, 13 May 2024
However, Senate leaders has been tight-lipped about their precise plans.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024
Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024
From fraught relationships with his parents (Carmichael’s devout Christian mother struggles to accept her gay son, while his dad remains tight-lipped about his decades of infidelity) to his seemingly compulsive cheating on a boyfriend, the series dives deep into its subject’s psychology.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 30 May 2024
Over the years, Lopez has stayed pretty tight-lipped about her relationship with the Bad Boy Records founder and that harrowing night.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
Both the Biden and Ruto administrations have been tight-lipped about how many of the 1,000 Kenyans police officers would be deployed in the initial phase.
—Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, is characteristically tight-lipped on its progress and challenges and declined to provide further comment on progress beyond NASA’s life-support press statement.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2024
Of course, nobody had a good handle on what the famously tight-lipped Orioles might do.
—C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
Those lawmakers had done their own freelance investigative work to reach that conclusion because the State Department has been outrageously tight-lipped about the situation.
—The Editors, National Review, 13 May 2024
However, Senate leaders has been tight-lipped about their precise plans.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Tight-lipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tight-lipped. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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