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  • adverb In a reticent manner.

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  • adverb with reticence; in a reticent manner

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Examples

  • Now domestic roe farmers have birthed a sustainable caviar industry, winning over, however reticently, the collective palate of the haute-cuisine stratosphere.

    The Great California Caviar Rush Stinson Carter 2011

  • In 2004, she moved halfway around the world to become the assistant director of the Australian Museum in Sydney ("I was ready for a change," she said reticently), before crossing the planet again to start her current job ("An opportunity arose to come lead a great museum") this past September.

    The Keeper of Curiosities Daniel Grant 2010

  • Governor Romney has said the right things about the war, but softly and perhaps reticently.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

  • Governor Romney has said the right things about the war, but softly and perhaps reticently.

    The Candidates We Have 2008

  • There is no clear win for the United States in Iraq, which even McCain reticently admits.

    Linda Milazzo: Lieberman and McCain's Desired Escalation Could Result in the Next World War 2008

  • There is no clear win for the United States in Iraq, which even McCain reticently admits.

    LIEBERMAN AND MCCAIN'S DESIRED ESCALATION COULD RESULT IN THE NEXT WORLD WAR 2007

  • The Anglicans are the only church to offer condoms to parishioners, and even they seemed to do it reticently.

    Boing Boing: November 28, 2004 - December 4, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Whether she wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant.

    Main Street 2004

  • For when Eleanor, who used English so reticently, said

    The Years 2004

  • Tentatively — Ivan much more reticently than the others — the four lab partners took turns probing the scrotum, gingerly testing on the cadaver the necessary but, as David Murphy had pointed out, socially uncomfortable technique each would be called upon to perform thousands of times in the future.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

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  • I mailed you my useless sympathy but, reticently,

    withheld admiration and love for you...

    - Peter Reading, P. S., from Diplopic, 1983

    June 30, 2008