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secretive

 adjective
     
se‧cre‧tive
a secretive person or organization likes to keep their thoughts, intentions, or actions hidden from others:
The government has been accused of being secretive and undemocratic.
secretive about
Carla was always very secretive about her work.
—secretively adverb
—secretiveness noun [uncountable]
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