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reticent
1. adj. Keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
2. adj. (proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).

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She has a reticent indifference to the emotional, to the facts and circumstances of personal life.

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