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• s  withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
  lived an unsocial reclusive life
• s  providing privacy or seclusion
  sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree

• He lived a life of a hermit and his reclusive life would not have come into limelight but for his unrelenting efforts to bring succor to the quake victims.
• Even among reclusive novelists, Thomas Pynchon reigns anonymously supreme.
• As the art world wondered whether the reclusive graffiti artist Banksy was finally caught on camera, PTI looks back upon some of his greatest hits.

• recluse
• withdrawn
• cloistered
• secluded
• sequestered

News & Articles

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• Dave Chappelle to perform at Ryman, tickets on sale now
  Reclusive comedian Dave Chappelle is coming out of the shadows for a just-announced U.S. tour, which comes to Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on June 23.
  June 9, 2013 - The Journal News
• Tahoe estate once belonging to Howard Hughes on the market
  Summertide in Crystal Bay, Nev., one of the many reclusive retreats Howard Hughes in the 50s, has hit the the housing market for $19.5 million.
  June 5, 2013 - News 4 Reno

Quotes

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• Salma Hayek in RealityTVWebsite.com
  I was hounded...... they are parked outside of your house and they will not move for months, I didn't leave my house for three months,Hayek says after giving birth to her first child last September. "I've become more reclusive."
• James Darren in NBC 11.com
  I don't see Sandra much because she's relatively reclusive,Darren said. "The last time I did see her she was absolutely adorable. She was as beautiful as she is in 'Gidget' and is charming, but very frail."
• Billy Collins in Independent
  He lives in Hawaii and has a semi-reclusive life,says Collins. "He's not banging the drum for poetry."