noncommittal
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
noncommittal
- Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.
- 1818, S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany, v. 10, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=D_YAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA234&dq=non-committal#PPA234,M1 p. 234]:
- [He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times.
- 1818, S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany, v. 10, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=D_YAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA234&dq=non-committal#PPA234,M1 p. 234]:
- French: évasif
- German: unverbindlich
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