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  • adjective Not revealing

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Examples

  • He pressed his forehead to mine briefly, then pulled away, his expression totally unrevealing, and now that I was more than ready to hear him out, he seemed reluctant to begin.

    Dark Angel V.C.Andrews® 1986

  • He pressed his forehead to mine briefly, then pulled away, his expression totally unrevealing, and now that I was more than ready to hear him out, he seemed reluctant to begin.

    Dark Angel V.C.Andrews® 1986

  • Like most such lectures, it's dull and unrevealing.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Other Desert Cities" Found On Broadway; "69 S" Lost at BAM; "Chinglish" Doesn't Translate Michael Giltz 2011

  • I sit rereading the short and unrevealing message on the too-bright computer screen in the lull that sometimes happens in the early morning when a busy emergency room has been emptied out.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • That night we watched White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on CNN and many of us scoffed at his safe rhetoric and unrevealing, consistent response: "We are monitoring the situation."

    Days Of Rage: An American Student's Harrowing Story As Egypt Erupts In Protests Erin Biel 2011

  • Their tweets tend to reflect their public personas, which is to say they're often bland and unrevealing.

    Baseball? Let's Talk Star Wars Brian Costa 2011

  • The big emotional moment at the end of the film -- the reveal, if you will -- is so unrevealing, so uninvolving, that you're bowled over mostly by the anticlimax of it.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Never Let Me Go Marshall Fine 2010

  • The narrator tells us that "Kate and Freya were actual friends," though you wouldn't know this from their interactions, which are brief and unrevealing.

    Reviving the Over-40s Paul Genders 2011

  • I sit rereading the short and unrevealing message on the too-bright computer screen in the lull that sometimes happens in the early morning when a busy emergency room has been emptied out.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • The conclusion I came to at the end of this diverting but limited book is that Dame Judi Dench is superstitiously unrevealing.

    And Furthermore by Judi Dench – review Kate Kellaway 2010

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