How To Use Secretiveness In A Sentence
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Apart from anything else, this secretiveness adds up to the cardinal sin of security by obscurity.
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Their secretiveness is the result of the fear that if they give, it may chance that they may want.
The Life of Gordon, Volume I
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So when it came to naming the shop, the pair decided to turn its secretiveness into an asset.
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His secretiveness is a start, but perhaps they could turn his good intentions in on him (kind of like what they did with Batman in The Dark Knight), choosing between two goods.
Christopher Nolan On Board to Direct DARK KNIGHT Sequel and “Godfather” the SUPERMAN Franchise – Collider.com
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I think there's too much secretiveness and arrogance of power.
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As the child grew more accustomed to Miss Asphyxia, while her hatred of her increased, somewhat of that native hardihood which had characterized her happier days returned; and she began to use all the subtlety and secretiveness which belonged to her feminine nature in contriving how not to do the will of her tyrant, and yet not to seem designedly to oppose.
Oldtown Folks
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But I'm starting to get worried because of your secretiveness.
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_Simple_ reflex action, or instinct, answers to the animal faculties, such as acquisitiveness, secretiveness, selfishness, reproductiveness, etc., and accomplishes two important purposes; self-preservation and the reproduction of the specie.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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This covers up also a good deal of business acumen, shrewdness, and secretiveness which is not so childlike and bland.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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But secretiveness is really all this project has going for it (unlike yours truly, who, besides rock hard abs and the brainyism of an astrophysician, is cuddly like a kitty cat – call me ladies/androgynous young boys).
CLOVERFIELD: THE SECRET IS OUT!
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The secretiveness and deceptiveness of the patients made the diagnosis difficult for those who were unaware of this tendency.
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She saw now that he did not mean to acknowledge his failing, and knowing the secretiveness of the drug-taker she decided that he was deluded enough to think he could still deceive her.
The Fruit of the Tree
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The secretiveness of the regime and the often seemingly wilful disinformation provided by its opponents makes matters worse.
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She found the man a baffling and fascinating combination of qualities, all petty selfishness and colossal egotisms one minute, abounding in endless charms and graces and small endearing chivalries the next; outrageously outspoken at times, at other times, reticent to the point of secretiveness; now reaching the most extravagant pitch of high spirits, and then, almost without warning, submerged in moods of Stygian gloom from which nothing could rouse him.
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
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Both had much cause to be grateful for the secretiveness of government in Britain.
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Naturally talkative, Theroux discovered the candour as well as the secretiveness of the island's people.
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Naturally talkative, Theroux discovered the candour as well as the secretiveness of the island's people.
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worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides
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For instance, Matt argues thatThe Democratic Party is awash in secretiveness, and while there have been Kerry emails which explain a bit of polling, one is mostly kept in the dark as to the strategic direction of the campaign.
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