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In natural English speech, "closeted" appears in contexts such as: "are doing terrible things to this community um and they are closeted and it's important to talk about that and I don't quite know how you do that um in a way that really makes a difference without". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/ˈklɒzɪtɪd/

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are doing terrible things to this community um and they are

closeted and it's important to talk about that and I don't quite know how

you do that um in a way that really makes a difference without

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adjective

Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

“Sally Gearhart, an ex-christian from Illinois who in the early seventies abandoned closeted lesbianism on Midwestern church college faculties for radical feminism in San Francisco,”

Synonyms:in the closet

adjective

Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency, or fondness; secret.

“[…] the remaining quotations, chiefly from English poetry, interested me only slightly more. They were the elegiac favourites of a closeted Romantic.”

verb

simple past and past participle of closet

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