reticent

Preposition: on

• subject: Stoppard, famously reticent on the subject of his private life in interviews, has been married twice.

Infinitive complement

• talk: I find them terribly reticent to talk about the glorious past.
• join: Tho SB not quite herself the last few days and was a bit reticent to join in as much as she normally does.
• pay: But I was still reticent to pay out around £ 500 for a further bike that I was still not totally happy with.
• do: Radical change is something that most businesses have been reticent to do.
• reveal: Strange things lurk in the jungle and of course everybody has a secret past that they are all reticent to reveal and talk about.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Too many higher up the food chain of People Power seem reticent about making full disclosure.
• become: Danger appears not to stir him, but he becomes reticent when asked about his work.
• remain: While Blue Tits remain reticent, Great and Marsh Tits are exceptionally bold.
• feel: At first I felt reticent about passing my enormous rucksack over to him.

Modifying Another Word

• understandably: They were nevertheless understandably reticent to meet new people.
• strangely: But architecture, on the whole, is strangely reticent to play openly on emotion.
• somewhat: Concerning domestic politics: Schleiermacher was always somewhat reticent about fundamental constitutional questions.
• initially: He is initially reticent, unsure of the motives for my questions.
• equally: Thornton was equally reticent about both issues when I spoke to him.
• extremely: This is rather rare, with many other sites providing online services being extremely reticent about who they are really.

Modifies a noun

• man: What the honest but reticent man says is true, but not the whole truth.
• student: Computer ' phobia ' exists in a variety of shades, from the mildly reticent student to the absolutely terrified.
• member: As always, even the more reticent members participated enthusiastically.
• child: Mog is a powerful teaching tool that can bring discussion alive and entice a reticent child to offer their thoughts and opinions.