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Definition
trustworthy with secrets and/or inconspicuous or unobtrusive
- Get to your bed and try to behave more discreetly.Chapter 18 (99% in)
discreetly = in a manner that is unlikely to attract attention
- He is discreet and silent, and has grown into manhood in my service.Chapter 2 (24% in)
- All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world. You tell not your madmen what you do nor why you do it.Chapter 10 (5% in)
discreet = trustworthy with secrets (or possibly sensible)
discreetly = trustworthy with secrets
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