Definition of "closelipped" [closelipped]

• Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "If contact is to be made it must come from the specialists, the encoders and analysts who have sat silent and waited, stern and closelipped, for more input."
• "It's over quickly, just as you're still admiring Branagh's closelipped way with a line; Julia Ormond's sweetly melancholy Vivien Leigh seeing dailies with Olivier - to whom she was married at the time - she's moved, sadly, by Marilyn's beauty; Emma Watson as an ever-so-slightly jaded young wardrobe girl; and Judi Dench as legendary actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, presented here as the kindest and gentlest of colleagues."