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discreet as in: discreet--not showy or gossipy
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I leave my phone on silent mode, so it can alert me discreetly when I receive a text message.discreetly = in a manner that is unlikely to attract attention
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She won't say anything. You can count on her to be discreet.discreet = trustworthy with secrets
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I will be discreet in my investigation.discreet = careful not to attract attention or cause embarrassment
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We are discreet at the office. We never display affection or act as though we date.discreet = careful not to attract attention
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You can count on her to be discreet.discreet = trustworthy with secrets and/or inconspicuous or unobtrusive
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In a confidential tone, he added, "We need some discreet assistance here." (source)discreet = trustworthy with secrets and careful not to attract attention or cause embarrassment
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Then, as discreetly as I could, I said, "What's the matter with you, boy, not liking Mr. Morrison?" (source)discreetly = in a manner that is unlikely to attract attention
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. (source)indiscreet = embarrassing (by revealing secrets)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscreet means not and reverses the meaning of discreet. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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But she was still young and incapable of hiding her feelings; and by inviting her papa and sister to her third-rate parties, and behaving very coldly to them when they came, and by avoiding Russell Square, and indiscreetly begging her father to quit that odious vulgar place, she did more harm than all Frederick's diplomacy could repair, and perilled her chance of her inheritance like a giddy heedless creature as she was.† (source)indiscreetly = in a manner that is not trustworthy, or attracts unwelcome attention, or is improperstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscreetly means not and reverses the meaning of discreetly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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But what I want of the contrast of broadcast or exposing versus discreet light is to suggest what the claims are, or the illusions, the discreeter seems to allow.† (source)discreeter = more trustworthy with secrets and/or less conspicuous or obtrusive
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"You surely don't forget, my beauty," said I, smiling, "what quiet, old-fashioned people we are and how I have settled down to be the discreetest of dames?† (source)discreetest = most trustworthy with secrets and/or least conspicuous or obtrusive
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"O stormy people, unsad* and ev'r untrue, *variable And undiscreet, and changing as a vane, Delighting ev'r in rumour that is new, For like the moon so waxe ye and wane: Aye full of clapping, *dear enough a jane,* *worth nothing <12>* Your doom* is false, your constance evil preveth,** *judgment **proveth A full great fool is he that you believeth."† (source)undiscreet = not trustworthy with secrets, and/or conspicuous or obtrusivestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undiscreet means not and reverses the meaning of discreet. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. This is typically written as indiscreet.
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I'm surprised at the indiscreetness you commit.† (source)indiscreetness = the quality of not being trustworthy, or attracting unwelcome attention, or being improperstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscreetness means not and reverses the meaning of discreetness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Risa wonders whether or not there's a discreet way to check without Alexis seeing, but realizes there isn't. (source)discreet = inconspicuous (not attracting attention)
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They can discreetly get you duplicates. (source)discreetly = in a manner that is unlikely to attract attention
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discreet as in: discreet--not foolish
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She is a discreet investor.
discreet = sensible and careful
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I need someone who is discreet--not someone as clueless and foolish as her little brother.
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Mr. Raymond chuckled, not at all offended, and I tried to frame a discreet question: "Why do you do like you do?" (source)discreet = polite (using good judgment)
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He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. (source)
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Do you want to be told that you are only unlike other people in being more wise and discreet? (source)discreet = sensible
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It would have been indiscreet and unprofessional for us to become sexual partners. (source)indiscreet = not sensible or carefulstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscreet means not and reverses the meaning of discreet. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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But honestly and slyly* he it spent, *discreetly, prudently That no man wonder'd how that he it had. (source)discreetly = in a manner that is sensible and careful
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...the slow process of official inquiry came to the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly playing with a dangerous pet. (source)indiscreetly = in a manner that is not sensible and carefulstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscreetly means not and reverses the meaning of discreetly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those discreet lines of the poet—'Heaven's last best gift.' (source)discreet = sensible
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As though animated by a common impulse, the onlookers drew back to a respectful distance; nor were they again indiscreet enough to interrupt. (source)indiscreet = ill-mannered
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For he from vices would him aye chastise Discreetly, as by word, and not by deed; "Sir," he would say, "an emperor must need Be virtuous, and hate tyranny." (source)Discreetly = in a manner that is sensible and careful
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Discreet he was, and of great reverence: He seemed such, his wordes were so wise, (source)Discreet = sensible and careful
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Well, I have been indiscreet, formerly; but I think I have got over it. (source)indiscreet = not sensible or careful
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This prayer must be truly said, and in very faith, and that men pray to God ordinately, discreetly, and devoutly; and always a man shall put his will to be subject to the will of God. (source)discreetly = in a manner that is sensible and careful
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