Crossword clues for noncommittal
noncommittal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noncommittal \Non`com*mit"tal\, n. A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.
Wiktionary
a. Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.
WordNet
adj. very reluctant to give out information [syn: guarded, unrevealing]
Usage examples of "noncommittal".
Mary made a polite but noncommittal response, and turned to watch the arrival, not of the expected Wharton wagon, but of a particularly well-built haycart from Canons Grange, lined with bales of straw and drawn by a pair of great horses which arched their necks, raised and lowered their great feathered feet and flourished their ribboned tails with all the pride of their warhorse ancestry.
Perdue was noncommittal about any aid he got from Castellano regarding his union troubles.
Over these noncommittal summits the bright eye of the bookseller, as he tacked up the freshly ironed muslin curtains Mrs.
Examined at close range he might be said to feature an uncanny sense of concentration, a fixed intensity that countervailed his noncommittal brown eyes and generally listless manner.
The noncommittal answer was flat and pointless,but the Jem Hadar officer's face looked like a spookedcow's.
The noncommittal mauve mountains half encircling the town seemed to me to swarm with panting, scrambling, laughing, panting Lolitas who dissolved in their haze.
I made a noncommittal smile recognizing the overweight cop, minibag of chips in hand.
Now as then the Arab broadcasts boast of huge successes, and now as then, the noncommittal Israeli reports are a strategic deception, he is certain, to stave off a UN ceasefire while Zahal mops up the enemy.
Haber maintained his noncommittal but interested expression, and Orr plowed on.
Her face had the off-white color and the noncommittal expression of a frozen Swanson's chicken pot pie—.
All around them the party was resuming a subdued, if steady, buzz, as various Tizarin and guests tried to figure out what had just happened, and the handful of crewmen present who knew of Q's history tried to be noncommittal.
The boy's face was noncommittal and I thought they might be playing games with me, satirizing the outsider's conviction that smalltown life is a surrender to just such tiny deaths, worm-watching and Masonic handshakes.
Driving up here like the original tough cookie in jeans and a red sweater, with my noncommittal answers and smart remarks, acting like two flat tires were all in a day’.