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non-committal

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non-committal noncommittal
adjective evasive, politic, reserved, guarded, careful, cautious, neutral, vague, wary, discreet, tentative, ambiguous, indefinite, circumspect, tactful, equivocal, temporizing, unrevealing I've got a nasty feeling that I shall get a very bland non-committal answer.
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non-committal [ˈnɒnkəˈmɪtl] ADJ [person] → que no se compromete; [answer] → evasivo
he was rather noncommittal → no dijo ni que sí ni que no, no se comprometió a nada
to be non-committal about sth → no definirse con respecto a algo


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There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.
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I tried to think of some non-committal thing to say, to keep up my end of the talk, and render my poverty in the matter of reminiscences as little noticeable as possible, but I seemed to be about out of non-committal things.
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