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- adjective Not inclined to share
confidences ;taciturn .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everyone stood around with the unconfiding silence of people who don't talk to the police.
2nd Chance Patterson, James, 1947- 2002
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Everyone stood around with the unconfiding silence of people who don't talk to the police.
2nd Chance Patterson, James, 1947- 2002
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Now the car was silent, as unconfiding as the day he had picked it up.
1st to Die Patterson, James, 1947- 2001
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The same cold, unconfiding eyes, the same bold and powerful shaven jaws, but this one was tanned to a lasting bronze that Cadfael recognized from his own past as having its origin very far from England.
The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988
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The same cold, unconfiding eyes, the same bold and powerful shaven jaws, but this one was tanned to a lasting bronze that Cadfael recognized from his own past as having its origin very far from England.
The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988
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An unsubmissive, unconfiding, unresigned soul will make vain the best hygienic treatment; and, on the contrary, the most saintly religious resolution and purpose maybe defeated and vitiated by an habitual ignorance and disregard of the laws of the physical system.
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When his advance notices first appeared, the New York critics, who are a singularly unconfiding, incredulous lot, were inclined to discount his
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Ever needy, ever unconfiding, they seem as if their greatest fear were reason and good taste, their highest care were to secure the majesty of their self-will.
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The house had a very unconfiding aspect; all its belongings seemed huddled about it for safe-keeping.
In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885
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This I shall always do, however unconfiding you prove. '
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
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