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- noun the state of being
tight-lipped
Etymologies
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From tight-lipped + -ness
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Examples
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But what this could be is that the Bush administration's notorious tight-lippedness, combined with a boy-who-cried-wolf-ism that rankles people on both sides of the ideological fence, is finally catching up with them.
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