Definition of "reticent"
reticent
adjective
comparative more reticent, superlative most reticent
Keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
Quotations
But he was a reticent as well as an eccentric man; and he made no mention of a certain evening when he warmed his hands at the gatehouse fire, and looked steadily down upon a certain heap of torn and miry clothes upon the floor.
1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, chapter XXIII, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870
She had told him she was not now at Marlott, but had been curiously reticent as to her actual address, and the only course was to go to Marlott and inquire for it.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […]
The milkman had been released, I read, and the true criminal, about whose identity the police were reticent, was believed to have got away from London by one of the northern lines.
1915 August–September, John Buchan, chapter 3, in The Thirty-Nine Steps, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published October 1915
But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures.
1922, Rafael Sabatini, “chapter XXV”, in Captain Blood: His Odyssy
(proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).
Quotations
But I would now like to argue that there was for Derrida a privileged site in Ancient Philosophy for this question, one to which Derrida would repeatedly return in his writing and thinking – Socrates’ denigration or denunciation of writing, his attempt in the Phaedrus to exclude writing from thinking and philosophy proper. As I suggested at the outset, this claim regarding Derrida’s relation to the Greeks is one that Derrida himself would have been reticent to accept.
2014, Michael Naas, edited by Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor, A Companion to Derrida, page 236