seclusive

• “I would doubt that, because it's a much more seclusive country than Iran.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009

• “It's kept behind "especially high walls" for privacy and seclusive separation from other operations based there.”

  Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation

• “What does the invasive and seclusive life of these children have to do with the Easter Bunny?”

  Worshipping the living goddess: Is it a violation of human rights?

• “These patients are seclusive and avoid social contact, and they are indifferent to hospital staff, visitors, relatives, and their physical environs.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

• “Oh, do you think so, you seclusive wretch," the headman said, as other villagers closed in around them, each looking more surly than the others.”

  Demons Don't Dream

• “Strong regressive and seclusive tendencies," Bassett explained, solemnly.”

  This Crowded Earth

• “Grant had come to Oakdale late the previous autumn, and was living with his aunt, an odd, seclusive spinster, by the name of Priscilla Kent.”

  Rival Pitchers of Oakdale

• “Owing partly to the radical hatred of Europeans, partly to the suspicious and seclusive nature of the Moor, the presence of foreigners in the sacred Slave Market was tabooed.”

  In the Tail of the Peacock

• “He is very seclusive, keeping himself aloof from the other patients, as he considers himself very much their superior.”

  Studies in Forensic Psychiatry

• “During his sojourn in the Government Hospital for the Insane, he was always very suspicious and seclusive, keeping to his room practically all the time and aloof from the other patients in the ward.”

  Studies in Forensic Psychiatry

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