reticent
She began reticently but grew in warmth and confidence.
She peered reticently through the window.
The small boy reticently climbed into the doctor's chair.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not saying much
a few well-chosen wordsidiom
abruptly
abruptness
boo
briefly
cat
concisely
conciseness
crisp
gnomic
incommunicative
laconic
laconically
monosyllabic
monosyllabically
not say booidiom
pithily
quietness
reticent
taciturn

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Shy and modest

Examples of reticently

reticently
In the emptiness there was something touching, something reticently satisfying.
From Project Gutenberg
She smiled, intelligently but reticently.
From Project Gutenberg
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